Haiku-a-day
A black and white dog resting on a couch looking at the person who loves him most.

We always begin —
even when hearts are broken,
they’ll leap again still.

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Haiku-a-day
A black and white dog lying in the summer grass in front of tall grasses with the person who loves him most.

Cattails and loosestrife,
tall now, just past the midpoint —
the light is changing.

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Haiku-a-day
A black and white dog starting out a walk towards a forest across green spring grass covered with dandelion flowers with the person who loves him most.

We’re here together
in spring dandelion grass,
always beginning.

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Haiku-a-day
A black and white dog standing outside with his eyes closed smiling with the person who loves him most.

Every joy tempered —
I come home and say, “Mack, Mack...
I still miss your face.”

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Haiku-a-day
A black and white dog seen from above standing next to late summer goldenrod and grasses with the person who loves him most.

August goldenrod
alongside grass gone to seed —
white patch on your ear.

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Haiku-a-day
A beautiful black and white dog walks through a field of goldenrod with the person who loves him most.

There are always paths,
in and out and through and through,
katydids calling.

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Haiku-a-day
A beautiful black and white dog looks intently at the person who loves him most.

My luck was boundless —
to have known such a creature,
safe and in this world.

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Haiku-a-day
A black and white dog walks through tall grass and goldenrod towards a field cover in thick, low-hanging fog with the person who loves him most.

We’re always going —
into fields of goldenrod,
into that dark night.

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Haiku-a-day
A black and white dog walks happily through tall grass and goldenrod in the sun with the person who loves him most.

The light of summer,
already starting to change,
rabbits hide in the scrub.

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Haiku-a-day
A black and white dog lying in the grass on a sunny summer day with the person who loves him most.

Every new good thing
makes me wonder what you’d think —
makes me think of you.

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Haiku-a-day
A black and white dog in a black and white photo in a forest with the person who loves him most.

These were our places,
out at dawn, under the moon,
just us, birds waking.

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Haiku-a-day
A black and white dog in a black and white photo lies on the grass with his eyes closed smiling with the person who loves him most.

You’re coming with me —
kingbirds, swifts, goldfinches, all
fly the path with us.

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Haiku-a-day
A black and white dog lying on a couch looking at the person who loves him most.

Mack, Mack, Mack, Mack, Mack.
I say your name in my head
and sometimes out loud.

Eight months without you.

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Haiku-a-day
A black and white dog lying on a couch with the person who loves him most.

Haiku for the past:
I can’t believe you’re not here,
I can’t believe it.

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Haiku-a-day

The air on our warm limbs,
the luck of being alive —
the luck of the sun.

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