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H.
F. Noyes' Haiku
H. F. (Tom) Noyes
solemn
tykes squat
round a heap of wet stones—
tadpole funeral
beyond
all tallied time
to find this virgin space
and here encounter now!
as
if nothing happened
—the crow there
the willow here
rusty
toy truck
stuck on the mudbank—
a cargo of blossoms
the
geese fly off . . .
and now it comes to me
that I am still here
full
moon rising—
nowhere on the empty beach
to hide our love
raking
aside leaves
on the backyard pond
I release the moon
these
death poems—
grandson hearing Basho's
asks for mine
reaching
for berries
the tip of my nose
in thrush song
adobe
church—
old belltower leans against
a broken ladder
bright
fall day—
the brook wanders off
its shimmer lingers
morning
sun—
the cat stretches into
her just-wakened
moonlight
stillness—
beside its shadow
shadow each stone
frozen
marshland—
the moonshiner’s rowboat
moored to its shadow
evening
walk—
the creak of my boots
invades the stars
old
picnic table—
smoothing the oilcloth
my hand remembers
Christmas
fir—
walking it home in the breeze
its little whisper
arguing
a point …
the tug with its haul of logs
gone out of sight
shooting
the rapids—
even the back of his head
looks surprised
the
Milky Way streams—
a farmer bends to his work
widening a ditch
Midsummer
dusk:
after the coo of doves
a softer silence
in
the darkened park —
my pipe's feeble glow
snow turned to slush
Saturday
downpour-
swiveling the stool
at the soda counter
father and son
hunching along together-
the snow banked road
fountain
spray
and the blindman's upturned face
finding each other
shooting
the rapids-
even the back of his head
looks surprised
breakfasting
with the morning glories-
painted on my cup
feeling
foolish love
for the water in the stream
just passing by
deepening autumn-
soundless drift of leaves
against the boathouse
the
geese fly off...
and it comes to me
that I am still here
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