scrambling over the trellis all hips and legs scratch and sniff distillation #DailyHaikuPrompt (wild rose) #haiku #senryu #tanka

not long before the equinox— stinging nettle tea #DailyHaikuPrompt (fresh) #haiku

the shortest month have we learned nothing?

under the surface nothing tranquil lily pad #DailyHaikuPrompt (tranquil) #NaHaiWriMo Can't stop thinking about what goes on beneath today.

to devour RNA without reason phage theory #ScifaikuSaturday (enigma)

wanton comet in an eternity of stars unruffled #DailyHaikuPrompt (tranquil) #haiku #NaHaiWriMo

tipping green sticks become branches holding weight #DailyHaikuPrompt (bud) #Haiku #NaHaiWriMo

itch of bleach a stranger's bathroom hard case chrysalis #senryu

Frog and Toad an historical bromance reading in bed #DailyHaikuPrompt (frog) #senryu

top ten Verdi bass arias to the stars bullfrog pond #DailyHaikuPrompt (frog) #Haiku #NaHaiWriMo

data reference invalid: twenty thousand lines cookie box empty #Senryu #Excel #EmotionalEating

false spring— heralded by massed jonquils triumphant #DailyHaikuPrompt (yellow) #haiku #NaHaiWriMo

line after line messengers to the gods black birds bring light #DailyHaikuPrompt (blackbird) #WhenInDoubt—Corvidae #haiku #NaHaiWriMo

I've been thinking about #Na/GloPoWriMo and whether or not I have the capacity this year. I always end up surprising myself, but it has been a long time since I have actively written anything longer than 3 lines. The last several stressful years have blended into each other and dampened my muse.

ganging up against the worms turf wars #DailyHaikuPrompt (robin) #NaHaiWriMo #haiku

cedar waxwing opportunity-drunk on fermenting hope #DailyHaikuPrompt (seed) #haiku #NaHaiWriMo

koan of small hours television test pattern I find myself #DailyHaikuPrompt (late) #senryu

learning buoyancy in the leisure deck pool they swam #ScifaikuSaturday (escape) #haiku #senryu

buzzing portent of Anna's hummingbird red skies at dawn #DailyHaikuPrompt (day) #haiku #NaHaiWriMo

for the bees through Winter's dull wet clover breaks fast #DailyHaikuPrompt (clover) #haiku #NaHaiWriMo

picking up where we left off cherry blossoms #DailyHaikuPrompt (friend) #haiku #NaHaiWriMo #senryu

the reciprocity of peanuts --- #DailyHaikuPrompt (friend) an attempt at #monoku

earliest man-bun the mountain quail starts a trend #DailyHaikuPrompt (quail) #haiku #NaHaiWriMo

permeable to ancestors' wisdoms thousand-year egg #DailyHaikuPrompt (egg) #haiku #senryu #NaHaiWriMo

mid-winter sun break thrown back against bright blue sheets a blanket-soft quilt #DailyHaikuPrompt (high) #haiku

micrographia a life lived loudly decrescendo #DailyHaikuPrompt (note) #NaHaiWriMo #micropoetry #senryu

gloria ad aeternum - ripping out the trumpets #DailyHaikuPrompt (morning glory) #haiku #NaHaiWriMo

the edge of chaos every hypothetical command-strip(p)ed #SciFaikuSaturday (command) #senryu #haiku

flocking each petal a half-assed love song --- flocking each license plate a crime ---- flocking in multitudes we are one #DailyHaikuPrompt (pilgrimage) #NaHaiWriMo #haiku #senryu How could I not comment on Valentine's Day, on mass surveillance, and on resistance with the prompt "pilgrimage"?

long-tailed kite flirts with the North wind troubles blown away #DailyHaikuPrompt (wind) #haiku #senryu #NaHaiWriMo

third spaces the librarian asks after my well-being #haiku #NaHaiWriMo

long-standing duty holding umbrellas for the ferns #DailyHaikuPrompt (evergreen) #NaHaiWriMo #haiku #PNW

fat cloud by the water tower hesitates #DailyHaikuPrompt (cloud) #NaHaiWriMo #haiku

the in-betweens we place so much faith in a violet #DailyHaikuPrompt (violet) #senryu #NaHaiWriMo

just warm enough lantern moon proposes a game of tag #DailyHaikuPrompt (spring lantern moon) #haiku #NaHaiWriMo

impossible choice in every doorway a cat #haiku #NaHaiWriMo

Girl-ish Playing house: I never understood how, Barbie? Vogue: My body doesn't work like that. America's mean and photogenic top model. Hours spent in the mirror; foundation mis-match. I can be anything I want: except. #SundayGenderThoughts #unfinished #gendery

the universe in our broken homes a pearl forms #DailyHaikuPrompt (milky way) #NaHaiWriMo #haiku

one glitch begets millennia mitosis #ScifaikuSatutday #haiku

north wind the canaries fall silent chilling speech #DailyHaikuPrompt (north wind) #NaHaiWriMo #haiku

tree to stone filaments of mending the moss #DailyHaikuPrompt (mend) #NaHaiWriMo #haiku

mending a single broken link know your rights #DailyHaikuPrompt (mend) #NaHaiWriMo #InternationalClashDay

last year's brambles rose-hip and thorny snow-drop forest tea #haiku #NaHaiWriMo

crushing weight in the creak of the night the cat, seeking warmth #DailyHaikuPrompt (warmth) #NaHaiWriMo #haiku

feet slipping on rain-soaked ground scolding towhee #DailyHaikuPrompt (soaked) #haiku

twilight altered mossy weighted blankets the hidden place #DailyHaikuPrompt (grove) is it respite or is it horror?

more than warranted February rains take liberties #DailyHaikuPrompt (rain) #haiku

twittering through the flightless birds seek wonder #DailyHaikuPropmt (twittering) #haiku

therapeutic path a twittering mind resolves perambulation #DailyHaikuPrompt (twittering) #senryu

miles to go, the crow changes course—irresistible shiny things #DailyHaikuPrompt (glimmer) #haiku #micropoetry