Shy Sunflowers [Haiku]

summer sun so bright
the sunflowers take a break,
& turn backs to light.

Long Shadow [Haiku]

summer evening:
long shadows climb steps
their source won’t reach.

Spiky-Legged Spider [Haiku]

spider works its prey;
 its movement is beautiful.
  its spikes - less so.

Van Gogh Palette [Haiku]

black-eyed susans
 nudge me into Van Gogh's world,
  but not too deeply.

Cooter Query [Haiku]

cooter cranes its neck:
 impulse to know greater than
  impulse to shelter.

Landscape Scars [Haiku]

limestone hillsides
 slough to form lasting scars
  in a treed landscape.

Green Hills [Free Verse]

fingers of forest
 interspersed with 
  fingers of pasture --

the hidden & 
 the exposed --
 
two kinds of danger:
 being seeable &
  being unable to see.

is the mind fearful
 of being exposed
  the same as the mind fearful
   of being confined?

Prepper Limerick

Doomsday preppers prepare for Armageddon,
 neatly arranging food, supplies, and weapons.
   A combo of OCD
    & whooping hillbilly?
 I think I'll just let the warheads beckon. 

Stag Beetle [Haiku]

a stag beetle
 lifts pincers in warning;
  tender flesh at feet.

Hover Quandary [Haiku]

a bee hovers
 between two wildflowers,
  in a quandary.