Archive (Page 22) • Hi-Q • Buttondown

Hi-Q: cathedral sky x2

cosmic window of natural design cathedral sky or branch+blue in verdant frame cathedral sky I really like the first line of yesterday’s haiku. Enough that I...

Hi-Q: beetle kill wooden nickle

beetle kill wooden nickel waning moon of absence

Hi-Q: trunk of memories

trunk of memories—felled to make more

Hi-Q: winter clothes

the dead tree wears winter clothes in summer heat

Hi-Q: fireflies return

setting sun perhaps the return of fireflies

Hi-Q: myth on the wing

resting from summer's heat, a myth on the wing

Hi-Q: pear tree

beneath the pear tree whose only fruit is summer shade

bits pressed together experience; a form or plywood a metaphor for life

Hi-Q: fluorescent buzz

tendrils of mist slowly unfold fluorescent buzz

Hi-Q: marble sky

stacking monoliths of once & future dust marble sky or building towers like stacking children's blocks marble sky

humidity — a blanket morning air like walking into amber

Hi-Q: seeds + fibers

seeds + fibers former trees stacked to become charcoal

Hi-Q: chime's song

chime’s song chance notes blown away humid breeze

Hi-Q: spring still life

spring still life living canopy cast against a cerulean canvas

Hi-Q: lily petals

lily petals begin to wilt hint of summer heat

Hi-Q: discarded

discarded blooms hidden amongst the grass or discarded blooming of unbidden memories

Hi-Q: transparent skin

transparent skin revealing veins of sunlight

Hi-Q: fenced in

fenced in by wood & wire & lines of communication

Hi-Q: accumulation

accumulation a timeline of the years

Hi-Q: wood three ways

rooted amongst the stones wood three ways

Hi-Q: study in blue

canvas for migration/saturation/transformation study in blue

Hi-Q: monochrome sky

monochrome sky a study in texture train whistle at a distance

Hi-Q: discarding layers

discarding layers past ready to be cleansed

Hi-Q: discarding layers

discarding layers past ready to be cleansed

Hi-Q: sound of children

sound of children playing young shoots contrasted with maturity

Hi-Q 05.09.19: concrete cairn

concrete cairn monument to unknown deities a collection of pebbles

Hi-Q 05.08.19: hawthorn branch

hawthorn branch enrobed in fog does it know of the trimmer?

Hi-Q 05.07.19: cricket's monologue

smell of fire & wet & ash distant siren & coyote interrupt the cricket’s monologue or smell of fire & wet & ash distant siren & not-so-distant coyote call...

Hi-Q 05.06.19: morning comes in

morning comes in on the wings of bird song cool spring air

Hi-Q 05.05.19: shattered stained glass

setting sun catches the leaves shattered stained glass

Hi-Q 05.04.19: wild flowers

wild flowers like blooming broncos unbound or wild flowers unbound by domesticity

Hi-Q 05.03.19: captured suns

captured suns tethered to former trees

Hi-Q 05.02.19: growth in absence

growth in absence the rose tree replaces itself

Hi-Q 05.01.19: like waterlilies

blooms like waterlilies floating on the branch

Hi-Q 04.30.19: fragility

fragility eventually escapes armor

Hi-Q 04.29.19: lines of light

lines in light cast against absence of shadow

Hi-Q 04.28.19: slow awakening

slow awakening of sunshine’s kiss the kettle calls

04.26.19: bird song

listening to bird song from different times and place nature’s aria

04.25.19: fallen map

fallen map ridges & rivers of a foreign land

Hi-Q 04.24.19: young blooms

promise of young blooms & sunshine

Hi-Q 04.23.19: thickest of forests

the thickest of forests occasionally bask in the sun

Hi-Q 04.22.19: tree's hand

tree's hand shaking in the breeze

Hi-Q 04.21.19: nature of thorns

do not misunderstand the nature of thorns

Hi-Q 04.20.19: petals fallen

sadness of petals fallen before spring’s end

Hi-Q 04.19.19: water drop

creation/ /destruction both within a single . . . drop