Haiku 2011 - #51

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cold and constant rain

a chance hollow, the wren's ...

I've said too much

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Untrue!

Untrue crow!

says you, says you, says you ...

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... those days

in the back, underneath

in the boxes ...

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Bones ...

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A taped box

best unnamed, unsent

best left to folds, to creases

unmended and left

... a taped box.

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There, in morning fog ...

the spider's

dirty tricks.

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In alder leaves

the jay hides another

... whoops.

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Nodding stems ...

the damselfly's

whisper.

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The rotting apple ...

two flies meeting

in secret.

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Secret mouse ...

your pink nosies and white toesies

are peeking!

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Cut grass -

grey squirrel

hiding a fat treasure.

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Painted walls

smothered days, buried nights

... muffled calls.

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Rusty latch

a rotting door, secrets

... who cares anymore.

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Tree, and shadow tree

she in shadow, we

... in shadows.

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Out there

hiding from the snow

... what only chickadees know.

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Secreted and sealed
in my jar of ghosts
... a towhee's feather.

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Star-cloaked forest
forest cloaking a secret
... lover cloaking lover.

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Why, bricked window?
What's your stain?
What've you seen?

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Inaccessible
stories
... of a bricked doorway.

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Things secret:
robins creeping through tall grass
... a spider's dreams.

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How my secrets pale
in these dim gordian twists
... of forest.

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