rhododendrons aren't blooming,
but clouds fled & mountains are out!
Clouds Out [Haiku]
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in a flat, wide river:
something juts up
from the water --
far in the distance
for an instant,
i startle:
seeing it as an
extended arm...
like that Stevie Smith
poem, but i discover
it's neither waving,
nor drowning, but
merely protruding...
a dead limb
stuck in the river,
drag & pull balanced,
waiting to be
carried away.




beach detritus
dragged ashore
by churning seas.

sage sits on stone
until he and the stone
can’t be told apart.