Poetry Victoria Jones — October 17, 2011 13:31 — 0 Comments
Five Country Haiku – Victoria Jones
Under the sprinkler
A robin stalks an earthworm
I pray for them both
While I write Haiku
A brown wren lights on my toe
Surprised, she takes flight.
Blossom by blossom
A hummingbird sips nectar-
Delphinium blues.
Uninvited guest
To birthday party picnic
Crawls up my pantleg.
Brown pygmy rabbit
Under elderberry tree
Nibbles fallen fruit.
What am I?
Bioluminescent eye
That sees by the shine
Of its own light. Lies
Blind me. I am the seventh human sense
And my stepchild,
Consequence;
Scientists can't find me.
Januswise I make us men;
Glamour
Was my image then—
Remind me:
The awful fall up off all fours
From the forest
To the hours…
Tick, Tock: Divine me.
-- Richard Kenney