Monthly Archives: May 2022

May21

 
 

I show no mercy
 
to the housefly on my book—
 
splat! it’s dead and gone!

May20

 
 

I praise in springtime
 
all the things that can’t be tamed:
 
stone, wind, raven’s wing.

May19

 
 

On a warm spring day
 
a curious crow watches
 
an old dog napping.

May18

 
 

Tell me again, wind,
 
why you’ve placed your loud spring voice
 
on the raven’s wing.

May17

 
 

On this spring morning
 
I think of the last journey
 
that I’ll ever take.

May16

 
 

As the drought deepens,
 
leaves rain down from my plum tree,
 
littering the ground.

May15

 
 

Little brown sparrow,
 
when the Flower Moon blossoms,
 
you keep to your nest.

May14

 
 

Hearing some old tales
 
from the cherry blossoms’ tongues,
 
I plan new journeys.

May13

 
 

From its pine-top perch
 
an owl booms out a warning—
 
spring melancholy.

May12

 
 

In a pool of light
 
a cat nurses three kittens—
 
spring tranquility.