30 January 2010

Cloudless sky tonight.
Full moon's cold light freezes time.
Dawn a distant hope.

30 January 2010

25 January 2010

The old snow has melted
Just in time for the new snow
To begin falling

25 January 2010

22 January 2010

Ice beneath my feet
As I slide across the path.
I’m going nowhere.

22 January 2010

21 January 2010

I'm listening to the Steve Kuhn Trio (the CD is Mostly Coltrane) last night, and I'm struck by a song that I don't think I'd ever heard before buying this CD, "Jimmy's Mode." [It's on a posthumous Coltrane release, Stellar Regions (1995), which I don't have. But which I think I'll have to buy.] On this version, Joe Lovano is playing tenor, and his performance is exquisite; the rest of the group might as well not be there. Shortly before the song begins, I turn out the lights, getting ready to head off to sleep. But the music keeps me in my seat.

Minor key. Tenor sax
Plays a somber melody.
I sit in darkness.

21 January 2010

19 January 2010

Tonight, memories
Surround me, as if the ones
I love were still here.

19 January 2010

14 January 2010

Piles of snow turning
Black. Gutters filled with snow melt.
January thaw.

14 January 2010

11 January 2010

The holidays? Over.
Reality sets in now.
Going back to work.

11 January 2010

8 January 2010

Clear sky, quarter-moon.
Air so cold my beard freezes.
Snow crunches underfoot.

8 January 2010

7 January 2010

A full day of snow.
Tonight, high winds building drifts.
I’ll stay inside, thanks.

7 January 2010

4 January 2010

I spend far too much time--generally, 5 hours a week, in two blocks, on interstate highways. And sometimes it gets difficult.

Just for a moment
The rhythm of the highway
Sings to me "...come…sleep..."

4 January 2010

3 January 2010

I composed this last night, while trying to fall asleep. I wrote it down (and did a little editing) this morning.

The pond froze last night.
Today, the setting sun
Turned the ice to gold.

3 January 2010

1 January 2010

We work up early this morning, with the sun just beginning to rise. And I do seem to be attracted to sunrises when writing haiku...so, here's the first:

The sun has risen
Just a little earlier…
The new year begins.

1 January 2010