I’ve been cleaning a lot inside and today I must have been overcome with a different sort of spring cleaning – that primal urge to prune. Tonight I am legit tired.
when least expected
you may be overcome with
an urge to cleanperhaps not cleaning
exactly but chopping
away the old brushscarier to start
if it comes to a chain saw
I will be carefulevening finds a
newly cleared patch of ground and
a big pile of brush.
and a Happy Haiku Day to all! A welcome rainy day here, cool enough to welcome a light sweatshirt but warm enough to relax into spring. Apologies to Bob Dylan for today’s first haiku du jour.
Hard rain gonna fall
thirsty ground unweeded
takes in every dropWhen the first drops fell
everyone paused turning
toward the windowrainy days, required
the blue-gray skies setting off
yellow-green tree budsaren’t we all looking
the solid edge to stand on
the leap rushing up.
I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity. — Igor Stravinsky 1936
Thought it would rain. Maybe tomorrow. But I found another way to give the garden some moisture.
The sun runs laughing
between the dark gray clouds
the dry garden waitswhite throated sparrow
practicing vibrato
from an unseen perchrefrigerator
still defrosting while I
eat leftovers.In the garden
freezer ice melts slowly
bonus from kitchen
Halfway through April already? No snow on the daffodils? I’m grateful each morning and evening for this brief time with them, sneaking extra looks throughout the day. I stopped and found some basil seeds but will have to go elsewhere for catnip.
The sun slants across
the hilltops this evening
the air is turningdaffodils pouring
out their gold to passerbys
begging for rainmorning and evening
moments the spring blossoms show
the light within them
Another unseasonably hot day. Tomorrow I may have to seriously water the front garden.
is it April?
Open another window
onto August.No april showers
the daffodils need a drink
I share dishwaterDeer descend here
to eat the daylilies shoots
eschewing green fields.
Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.
