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Haiku by JALO
Nicolet Forest, Wisconsin
(Evening)
On his way to bed,
Down among tall grass,
The sun has scattered clothing.
Dragonflies!
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(Dusk)
High in the pines
A red squirrel makes his way across the sky.
A panic moon!
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(Nightfall)
As the trees lose color,
Up and down the river
Crazy coyotes call each other.
---:---
Cascading from their shelter,
Bats first fall, then rise-----
Then they too seek the river.
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( Rainy Spring night, 40 west.)
Striped Morning Sphinx.
(Celerio lineata)
In my lights
A hawk moth lingers,
Its tongue tip in-- pinkness.
Oh! Not a flower! A run-over frog!
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( Moonlight & Calm. 1)
Myriad upright spindles of mist!
(An army of ghosts of dwarves?)
So slowly they march! ---
-------- (Do I dream?)
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(Moonlight & Calm. 2)
Across a sea of mist all
Moonlit in the crystal air:
Antlered deer heads sail serene.
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( Pinewaters, 1950 (1))
Storm gone.--
Green dawn.--
Wet rain just falling.----
All the works of man,-
-----Dissolving.
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( Pinewaters, 1950 (2))
Here is hereafter
Finer than any told:
Deep---
Forest---
Mold.
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( A Wisconsin road 1963)
The long dead crow
Still lifts one wing!
----In wry salute to each passing car!
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The Loon (1969)
Red of eye.
And mad of cry.
This harlequin's a diver--
As am I.
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North Pacific, (1953)
Day after day of snow,
Dropping on the black, black sea!
--- Will there be drifts?-- below?
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Advice for naturalists:
Two eyes,--
All creatures sense and fear!
So close one eye
If you'd come near.
