The assignment was windows of childhood. These Haiku represent the places of my nomadic childhood until I was ten. Each one is written about each home that I lived in as a child.
Cape Cod
1.
Gray Buttermilk Bay
Salt sea wind bends trees
Raindrops pummel pane.
2.
Bright Incan print waves
Singing zippedy do dah
Mary janes, hand in hand.
3.
Imaginary
Ice cream cones hand spun from trikes
Upside down on walk
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Oldham Pond
4.
kite string safety pin
Twigs giggles six bare feet on dock
Metal pail sunfish
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Kingston
5.
Moon light whip poor will
Fantastic creatures dance by
Shadows of pine bough
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E. Bristol Wisc
6.
Wooly bear caterpillar
glass jar on sill snow through frost
Many tricks are revealed.
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Plympton
7.Skating horse pond late
Frozen fingers dark trees groan
Stuck laces I cried
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Oldham Village
8.
Sweet scented roses
Flagstone walk to fat maples
Water view calls me
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Biloxi
9.
Indian paint brush
Old barracks faded gray board
Pine cone scattered lawn
10.
Metal blinds burn red
prefab ranch houses in row
boys ride bikes shouting.
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Maine
12.
Snow covered stones
Mud sloshed road birch and pine wood
Chickadees hopping.
13.
Kids dam gutter stream
Twigs ferry around the mud
Dirt swiped foreheads.
14.
Perfect backyard tree
Smooth perch long view beyond ten
Dreams and fears collide.
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