Sound – Page 61 – Iron Haiku

Caution

semaphore flags snap
high in the ominous sky
double back and red
–
a tempest-
warning flags
flying high

the cricket’s refrain
raspy in the evening woods
fades as the night falls

–

evening woods-
crickets fade
as midnight nears

Tall meadow grasses

Tousled by a humble breeze

Whisper in concert

The springtime wetland
Chorus comes alive at dusk
As the peep frogs sing

Waves crash on the shore

As uncounted grains of sand

Sift through my fingers

Smoky music seeps
Through these thin apartment walls
And pools in my ears

Salt hangs in the mist
The bell from a channel buoy
Guiding me back home

Ripples of dreams lap
Against the shores of the night
Lulling me to sleep

Sunset on the dunes
Sibilant whispers whirl from
The wind in the reeds

Birds take flight en masse

Forming paintings in the sky

For just a moment