Haiku About Rivers and Lakes

FATTY FISH SWIMMINGBENEATH THE DEEPENING ICEHUNGER PANGS LINGER

ONE LOON AT DOCKSIDEDIVES BELOW THE LAKES SURFACEBOBS BACK UP DISTANT

SILVER, SCALY FISHGLIDING, WEAVES THROUGH RIVER BED -SUN SHARPENS SHIMMER

FALL RIVER

COLOR DRIFTING ONA LIQUID CANVAS - WIND GIVESFALL RIVER RECEIVES

WIND RIPPLES WATER

WIND RIPPLES WATERGRASSHOPPER FLOATING ON LEAFMUST STAY VERY STILL

WIND CHANGES DIRECTION—BULLFROGS SHOW THEIR NOSEIN A SHRINKING POND.

LEARNING CURVE

HEADSTRONG, STOUT YOUNG STREAMWHITE WATER TRIALS PROVE ROUGHWISDOM OF THE FALL

AMONG FROZEN RIVERS

SEASONS BLOOM FLOWERS,FLOW WATERS; ONE WHITE LILYSTILL COVERED WITH SNOW.

TADPOLES ON A ROCKUNDER THE WATERCREATING WAVES

PRETTY RAINBOW FISHTHEY ARE COLORINGSTREAMING AS THEY SWIM

IN THE FOREST MAZESPARKLING WATER TRICKLING DOWNPLACE OF SOLITUDE.

PEBBLE

ANOTHER PEBBLE,IT FINDS IN THE COLD RIVER,FRIENDS AT THE BOTTOM...

A WIND MOVES

A WIND MOVESTHE TREE SHADOWS:CARP SCATTER

BASSOON OF MARSH WIND BLOWSBROWN RIVER ROLLS UPANTS CLING TO A SINKING LEAF

FLOWER PETALS

PETALS IN THE WATERSEPARATE AS EACH OF THEMGO THEIR DIFFERENT WAYS.

THE ROAD MAP

GIVE ME THE ROAD MAPTHE STARS STOPPED TALKING TONIGHTRIVERS KEEP FLOWING

RAINFOREST

TOO QUIETRIVERS PENSIVE WITH DESIRELOST DAPPLED LIGHT

SHIVERING CLOUDSIN AN ICY RIVERREFLECTIONS OF SKY

CHOICES

STANDING ON THE EDGEICY BLUE WATER SHIMMERSWE ALL TAKE THE PLUNGE

MIDWESTERN BACK ROADSFORESTS, RIVERS, HILLS AND WILDLIFETHEIR HEARTS WIDE OPEN

BLUE

BLUE HERON, DUCK POND.ROSE SKY DAWN. GLASS REFLECTIONS.ABSENT ITSELF, TIME PASSING.

PEACH LAKE

THE MEN OF PEACH LAKEREST THEIR RODS OVER WATERINSECT PROBOSCIS

A SCHOOL OF MINNOWSSLOWLY DRIFT ALONG THE SHOREONE FLASH AND THEN GONE

SILVER ARCS OF LIGHTRIPPLE ACROSS THE EGRETFISHING FOR MINNOWS

WATERFALL

FUNNELING WATERA DEEP CERULEAN BLUEOVER BASALT ROCK

BROOK

THE NATIVE TROUT DARTFROM BENEATH THE RIVER ROCKS,GRABBING INSECT PREY.

RIVER

RUSHING RIVER GIRL,NOW FALLING IN, GETTING WET,PULLING ME WITH YOU.

16-3

THE WATER MIRRORWATCHES THE SWAYING WILLOWSTANTALIZING DANCE

THE GURGLING STREAM FLOWS

THE GURGLING STREAM FLOWSTHROUGH FIELDS AND WOODS, WINDING ROUND,BUBBLING WITH NEW LIFE.

LAKESONG’S WET WHISPERWATER’S TONGUE MOVING BENEATHSWIMMING IN MUSIC

TELL ME A STORY

I DREAMT OF US THEREWHERE WE WHISPERED OF OUR PASTBY ROARING RIVERS

RIPPLES IN WATER

RIPPLES IN WATERHANDS CLASPED TIGHTLY IN LAUGHTERA CIRCLE OF FRIENDS

TWO TREE SWALLOWS

TWO GRAY TREE SWALLOWSSKIMMING OVER LAKE SURFACEPRACTICING GYMNASTICS.