Haiku #343

in the field
mole darting across our path
in its summer coat

Haiku #339

these quiet
rooms not even crickets
dogs

Haiku #338

happy where they are
white phlox
among thistle

Haiku #337

a day alone
insect husks on the trunk
of the aspen

Haiku #334

summer tourists
each man outdoing the other
telling about his job

Haiku #333

late summer
butterfly
tasting fallen blossoms

Haiku #332

wishing for rain--
hot wind in the aspens
sounds like rain

Haiku #331

falling off 
as the cat walks away
a dead summer leaf

Haiku #330

a hot evening
too much of everything
mosquitoes and grass

Haiku #324

a quiet boat ride
an egret flies over us
toward the shade

Haiku #323

lily pads
the wind picks them up
I hold onto my straw hat

Haiku #322

Sitting on the porch in the afternoon:

miserable heat
above, sweet call of the wren
we still complain

Haiku #321

Sitting outside on a summer evening, I spend time with
Buson. At the edge of the field, two red butterflies.

hard to make them out
through the blur
of reading glasses

Haiku #318

on a highwire
mourning dove soaked with warm rain
I long for autumn

Haiku #314

you only hear them
when the cicadas cease--
evening crickets

Haiku #313

lifting the nozzle
to spray the dogs--
I can't resist

Haiku #312

sad, unending rain:
two white swans swim together
enjoying themselves

Haiku #311

sad thoughts
Queen Anne's lace bobbing 
in the rain

Haiku #309

little butterfly
lights on a cat's tattered ear
summer afternoon

Haiku #308

white butterfly:
walking into the birdbath
toward the water