William Hart Reads A Selection Of His Haiku

 



trip’s end  
a glowing farmhouse                                      
niched in the milky way

Wildcat Road, Timberline Press, 2000
 

each nail       
grieves in its own voice                                    
leaving the wood

Wildcat Road, Timberline Press, 2000

 
hammer duet
echoes off                                                          
the darkening woods

Wildcat Road, Timberline Press, 2000

 
gracefully
haphazard
butterflight

Wildcat Road, Timberline Press, 2000

 
album photo
on three faces                                                     
the same nose

Wildcat Road, Timberline Press, 2000

 
gone the summer dream
erased by rain                                                      
through the windowscreen

Wildcat Road, Timberline Press, 2000


ancient headstones
the names and numbers                                      
worn to mutters

Wildcat Road, Timberline Press, 2000

 
tag end of a summer
pulling weeds
barefoot in the rain

Wildcat Road, Timberline Press, 2000

 
cloud glutton
you swallow a mountain                                       
then fall asleep

Cloud Eats Mountain, Red Moon Press, 2013

 
a swaying branch
is all we know about                                              
the unseen bird

Cloud Eats Mountain, Red Moon Press, 2013


while we dreamed
a lily bloomed                                                          
in the gift bouquet

Cloud Eats Mountain, Red Moon Press, 2013


a severed dream
lingers into my workday                                           
listless mistakes

Cloud Eats Mountain, Red Moon Press, 2013

 
arrival gate
all those who aren’t her                                            
come out first

Cloud Eats Mountain, Red Moon Press, 2013

 
two boys
one butterfly net                                                        
no butterflies

Cloud Eats Mountain, Red Moon Press, 2013

 
uncut grass
bent low by dewdrops                                                
the burdens of love

Cloud Eats Mountain, Red Moon Press, 2013