In Rain – Sunset, Thursday, 4 June 2015

William Van Doren, IN RAIN. Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on canvas, 24 x 30.

In rain silver, in rain gray, in rain green ground, in rain the river, lost in rain, found, fallen once and twice and twice and twice again from leaf to leaf and down, rain is rain and right to rain and drop a drop and drop and drop around the world round world a world clear round.

Sonnet Haiku

How different is
A haiku from a sonnet?
Let me count the ways 

March Haiku

Beech leaves hang around
Illuminated parchments
April will be green.

Haiku on a Pellegrino Bottle

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Civil War Haiku (2)

My fourth-grade teacher
Had Mosby’s sword on the wall
Segregated schools. 

Civil War Haiku (1)

(For Michael Douglas Jones.)

Burnside told us, Charge
The heights at Fredericksburg
Thousands departed.