JIKU book excerpt #203

 

a field mouse ~

faltering . . . hovel silence ~

autumn’s evening . . . frost

Excerpt from the book JIKU, #238

 

nature’s nite light ~

moonbeams piercing windows ~

wood stoves dimming heat ~

time to stoke the fire ~

one last time before I sleep 

Excerpt from the book JIKU #116 ( Ode to Robert Wright)

 

Up the Mountain ~

in my hovel . . . this other road ~

it’s my world

JIKU book excerpt #178 (First published in the journal of English Tanshi Bamboo Hut, in the Autumn 2015 edition.)

 

misty sheets of rain ~ 

stir slumbering clouds ~

on my mountain side

JIKU book excerpt # 189

 

pine cones ~

sticky sappy here there, ~

everywhere pine cones

Another JIKU book excerpt

 

Up the Mtn # 190

half awake . . . just . . .  ~

field mice . . . scampering  ~

on my roof . . . right ?

Another JIKU book excerpt

 

stained by pitch & sap ~

my hickory handled axe ~

splitting wet firewood

JIKU book excerpt # 165

 

thunderous booming ~

piercing crackles . . . lightning ~

swollen, pregnant clouds ~

birthed on a mountain side ~

divine intuition

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Blue & Green ~

Miles in 59 ~

(sounds on vinyl)

O’Keeffe in 60 ~

(oil on canvas)

Another JIKU excerpt

 

gales mash root rot ~

Autumn’s needles cry . . . in fall ~

a breeze  - leaves - a trunk prostate ~

on a forest floor ~

shrill silence - Autumn’s FalL

amerikkka #58 (the middle class)

 

few float to the top ~

most sink to the bottom ~

while the middle churns

Another JIKU excerpt

 

life splintering ~

relationships flickering ~

a cloud a bear witness

Up the Mtn #149

 

rapids ~

washing over me ~

swaying trees

Up the Mtn #215

 

my journeys my home ~

time, love, fellow travelers ~

a wanderous life

Up the Mtn #185

 

(grateful) transcendence ~

(moonlit) Cherry Blossoms . . . floating ~

“this other World” 

Up the Mtn #227

 

-40 ~

I know warmth awaits me ~

just beyond this numbness ~

whether indoors by the fire ~

or sitting by this tree

Up the Mtn #50

 

from my hovel ~

(that) smokey scent lingers ~

from Up the Mtn

 

Up the Mtn #48

 

skies darken past tree lines ~

moonbeams shine as sunlight flees ~

field mice dine with me

Up the Mtn #166

 

the sound of field mice ~

gnawing through my insulation ~

in this lonely hut ~

my late night companions ~

scurrying . . . pooping . . . on my roof

Up the Mtn #248

 

fleeting warmth ~

autumn’s hush . . . stillness ~

interim’s season ~

airs still . . . pregnant with change ~

moonlight . . . shaded with coolness