Writings by Thomas Radwick. Mostly poetry and lyrics. t_radwick@yahoo.com

20 Haiku

Early summer heat—
every day the mountain's
snow patch seems smaller

Sudden cool shadow
as I lay reading the word
"Coolness" in a book

Unbelievable—
caging this beautiful bird
for our amusement

*

Fitness club entrance—
a drowsy slouching woman
lights a cigarette

Little puff of cloud
hanging in a blue noon sky—
a man's yelling face

Cool summer morning—
the cat gazes at me, then goes
back to eating grass

*

Like an insistent
old friend visiting again—
this morning's boner

A bird flees the blast
of a siren's scream somewhere—
cat yawns and stretches

A sudden wind like
the pouring of a bucket—
the rippling grasses

*

Little gnat struggling
in a pool in a beer glass—
my penknife saves it

His ironic nose—
when he's sincere it betrays
something cynical

The cat hides her face
while sleeping the sunlight—
breath rises and falls

*

Domed sky with splotches
of twilit clouds—all my life
I've been a fool

Broken moods of three
different wines at dinner—
half-empty bottles

Summer afternoon—
she enters the dark house, sky
blazing behind her
 
*

Vast tiger head
presiding in a cloud bank—
look back and it’s gone

Lonely little face
in a knot in the floorboard—
too sad to believe

Brilliant green leaves
rippling in a pouring breeze—
sleepy chirping bird

*

A yellow spider
crawling up my brown pant leg—
does he think it’s earth?

Walking west at dawn,
our long shadows precede us—
bird cries like a child




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