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Sunday, April 29, 2007

Canoe Haiku

Cedar slats and ribs
Sharp brown knife in the water
Shiney new canoe


How thin the wood wall
That curves two ways around me
As I paddle home


This canoe seats two
As the sun sets I plow home
With one place empty


Knees chaffed by cedar
Kneeling for hours working
Bright hardwood paddle


Wiley pike looks up
Wooden bubble floats above:
My cedar canoe


Hickory paddles
Stab and rip black silk water
Through green lily pads


Waveless glassy lake
Sound of a couple laughing
Canoe almost still

1 comment:

pookisue said...

Very nice. I love Haiku's.