Monday, October 5, 2009

Haiku on the Prairie School

I.
Wind rattling trees
hasn’t ever felt so warm
than now, here inside.

II.
For six weeks each year
Midwestern trees protest man’s
want of privacy.

III.
Spirit of today,
wrapped up like small wooden gifts,
opens without sound.

IV.
Does nature appear
more beautiful sitting down
behind a window?

V.
Hill Paradox: a
stare directly at one side
reveals the other.

VI.
Does nature appear
more beautiful sitting down
behind a window?


VII.
The beaver does not
think, it builds cyclopean
mounds with its mean mouth.

VIII.
This sea is endless:
gold waves with brown swells ask the
horizon “what now?”