Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Sound of Running Water 2 (more video haiku)


Sound of Running Water iv (Ice and Bubbles)

Sound of Running Water v (Whirling)

Sound of Running Water vi (Splash!)

Sound of Running Water (Video Haiku)

Sound of Running Water 1

Sound of Running Water II (Cliff Stream)


Sound of Running Water III (Tiny Bubbles)


Notes:  If a short video were to be a haiku, what would its characteristics be? A short observation, a subtle surprise, a lovely sound?  For now, I'm going to work with such a definition, but if you have other suggestions, by all means let me know!

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

How cold my knees are/ heartwreck/ a love poem





Early morning. Pink light at the window. The cat, curled on the pillow beside me wakes when I do, gently taps my face with her paw.  The furnace cycles on again. I must get up and put wood on the fire. The walls of the house creak with cold.

I draw the curtains, let in the sun, build up the fire, sweep ash and wood fragments into the boiler, turn up the thermostats. Time for coffee. An eagle, carried on an air current, dashes across the sky.

How lovely the light is, how cold my knees are. How age or winter undoes me, piercing my bones. It wrecks my heart to wake here without you.