These are haiku/senryu I’ve published on Threads. Each is preceded by the day’s single-word prompt by @haikufeels.

sew
Mom reading aloud
to us when young — forever
sewn in memory

move
Lying still as mud,
in my chest a tap of pulse —
never motionless

carve
One patient river
and millions of years — just wait —
made the canyon grand

scrub
I love spring leaves — but —
car bedazzled with pollen —
it needs a good scrub

abuse
What went wrong? To start,
“you’re just imagining things”
did us no favors

recycle

Out in the forest —
no leaf rake, scooping, or bags —
a thick palimpsest

reform
Chastised, we regret
while planning next steps — to wit:
don’t get caught next time

shoot
Meteor’s demise —
billion years, silent orbits —
seconds of bright flame

nap
The job pays the bills
and I do need to eat — but
oh, to nap sometimes ...

value
White snow — no nuts seen —
but our squirrel friend
knows where each one is

turn
Beard greys as leaves turn —
mind toward knowledge ever yearns —
old passions still burn

punish
Many will shame you
for wanting their honesty —
parents, or partners

embrace
Catch-all cooking tip:
when in doubt, add more garlic —
embrace the moment

discover
Blank sky, calm water —
then, with goggles, dive below —
intricate marvels

mask
Microaggressions
leave me not angry enough
to fight — just despair

enlist
After the big scene —
truly asking, please tell me —
was I the jerk there?

unwind
Modern-day irony:
getting up to exercise —
best way to unwind

flick
The cat is now “fed”,
inasmuch as there’s a dish
of food — tail flick — bye

suspect
My heart has broken
so many times — yet with you
all else pales behind

suspect
Weekly staff meeting —
one person is defensive —
another sits smug

permit
Saturday morning —
no to-do list, no guilts tripped —
consciousness can wait

pay
One more drink can’t hurt — ?
Except at my age, oh yes,
by morning it will

ghost
Fifty years they had —
good ones, both said — reminders
of the possible

discount
Discounting the risks,
our friend chicken crossed the road
for reasons untold

rest
Turtle on day off,
northbound geese coasting mid-flight —
rest is relative

prank (April 1 2024)
There once was a poet named Anne
who cooked up an internet plan
  to inspire haiku
  in the hearts of all you
but Fools’ Day is now here at hand

elope
Paper and scissors
have finally worked it out —
poor rock, all alone

lie
On riverbed floor
lies a stone cast in anger
eight hundred years ago

scam
Palaces and yachts;
hovels, starvation; all on
an abundant earth

dream
As cats chase mouse toys,
humans chase dream homes, cars, wealth —
ever compulsion

rinse
After desert rain,
once-dusty streets now glisten
momentarily

drive
High up and southward
geese beat their wings, veeing heads-
first into cold rain

lift
Spring pollen arrives —
much aloft — and to my nose —
another tissue

embark
Drop of melting ice
quivers on hillside tree branch:
ocean, here I come

guess
Wondering if this
will go well — already your
jaw sets — I guess not

want
For want of a nail
the shoe was lost — alas, poor
tilty three-shoed horse

have
Of all the moments
that ever were, only one,
only now, is ours

nod
Flowers nod in breeze
— cliché, I know — sorry, folks —
a long day at work

wash
Arroyo, wadi,
wash: shaped like a river, but
dry almost always

sacrifice
Green leaves without rain
All droop; seven green, three brown
How are they chosen?

drizzle
Drizzle all morning
No punctuation — and then
a crack of thunder

soak
Five days of rain now
and still counting — rivulets
wending riverward

snag
Just one more thing, sir —
before you board the airplane —
have you your passport?

tidal
Locked eternally
facing Earth’s aches — does the moon
wish for innocence?

drift
Sit, said Master Thay,
like a pebble drifting down
to rest in water

tumble
Twisting river, roar
approaching, fall of water,
down to stones below

hike
We climbed that mountain
Above the clouds, fog all around —
a different heaven

accident
It was a third date —
Mom and Dad had barely met —
and now here I am

lullaby
Gentle roof murmurs
Open-window petrichor
Night rain soothes the soul

bend
Breeze bends through curtains
as light as memory, heavy
as wistful regret

vacant
Uncircled peace signs
end abruptly in mid-beach —
shorebird has flown away

river
Long runs and rushes —
the ancient seaward river
folds, turns, flows through time

fickle
The weather, and cats —
what else is fickle? My own
creativity

cake
Baby elephant
caked with mud, small and forlorn —
Mom’s nasal shower

meditate
Still air, pond, hot sun
Dragonfly alights on stem —
waits, and longer waits

assemble
Sidewalk scattering —
O Pigeon Optimism! —
there aren’t enough seeds

pick
Seagull drops a clam
to the stony shore below —
dines on the halfshell

cut
Orchard branches pruned —
in with good, out with bad — but
who wields the knife?

need
Becalmed in mid-sea,
three side-eyeing sailors wait
for a hint of breeze

weave
Final breath — she let
loose strands of life she had so
carefully woven

question
Grey clouds hang shaggy
Like sheep’s untended belly wool
Hints of maybe rain

design
Brand-new spider web
Bead of water glints in sun
No insects fooled yet

paddle
Mallard pair: brown, green
On water, silence — before
and after rainfall

see
Always five stars: six,
one night — what solar system’s
birth or death unfolds?

exclude
Old man and the sea
spoiler alert: fish get caught
No white whale, no sale

request
Mrs. Dalloway
plot summary: rejection
comes back to party

debate
Treeful of swallows;
another dawn; cacophony
ensues, and then flight

describe
Bare, waving branches
describe hopes for the future
upon a grey sky

elicit
Two tentative buds
feeling sun, loosening bonds,
risking a late frost

include
I water my plants
almost as much as I should
green leaves, one yellow

clean
Dishwasher is full
and run. My conscience is clean.
And who needs cupboards.

vibrate
Aspen leaves in fall
A million quivering glints
Hillside ashimmer

fire
Cold ash: job well done
Unburnt wood lumps: you refused
to help out last night

subdue
People are coming
and going, all the day long
Cat squints; tail twitch

play
Hot day in summer
People seek shade and water
Petals sway in breeze

condemn
Century-old home
Now grey and splintered timbers
Sunlight peeks between

reply
Deep cavern, darkness
Water, no sun, no algae
One plink, one echo

sketch
Horizontal sunset
Green tree, black shadow on wall
Two trees side by side

code
Bird chatter fills trees
One certain distant trill — one
wide-eyed bird aroused

stab
Cringing to think of
an ineptitude of mine
thirty years ago

protest
Two cat dishes placed
One whiskered head bows to eat
One raised tail departs

cook
Desert sun’s hammer blows
left me reeling, out of state
seeking shade eastward

negotiate
Past root, bole, and fen,
the many-voiced river wends
murmuring seaward

confused
Eyes closed in the woods
Leaf, bird, bug, deer, snake, mouse sounds
A confusion of lives

retreat
Mouse tiptoes outward
Owl flies low; moon silhouette
A hungry retreat

create
Winter’s first snowfall
Asphalt creations shrouded
Silence surrounding

spend
Snowcloud burdens spent,
silent fields lie sparkling
crisp under starlight

allow
Noonday sun allows
the night storm’s icicles one
brief pendulous drop

add
Snowflakes add, glacier
ancient and ever higher
until the world changes

collapse
Melting icicle
sparkles, drips, not yet fallen —
sword of Damocles

allocate
Beet, pea, cabbage seeds,
hidden all in their rows, sleep
under winter soil

imply
Cold and rainy still
Trees yet twigged and skeletal
Squint to see bud tips

forgive
Rat-a-tat-a-tat
Door slams; woodpecker pauses
Rat-a-tat-a-tat

accept
Leaves curled, they need
water — gratefully they yield
joyful petrichor

laugh
Little icy brook
tumbles laughing over old
dead fallen branches

insist
Green tendrils wending,
like fingers prying barred doors,
up through crumbling brick

remember
Grandfather’s keys, coins,
knife, life gone — leaving only
scratches on old desk

whisper
Late, silent attic
Leafing idly through yearbooks
Memories whisper

educate
Mom and Dad fighting
He won, she lost; he smiled smug
Decades she waited

model
Airplane window seat —
all simple below — one of
my favorite places