Boston Haikai 183 -- Saturday chores

Saturday's poem
Is an old blue Toyota
Wiped clean of bird shit

26 August 2017 -- Cleaning the car

Boston Haikai 182 -- Airport

No incoming flights
At one-o-seven pm,
Only hot cement

16 August 2017 -- Logan Airport

Boston Haikai 181 -- Flagpole

Flag taps a rhythm
Against its pole at its school
Empty in August

12 August 2017

Boston Haikai 180 -- Asphalt sprouts

Sprouted in August
From under torn up asphalt,
Traffic cones, lilac

8 August 2017 -- Harding St under construction

Boston Haikai 179 -- Broken water gun

Broken water guns,
Tucked in Power Ranger shorts
Elms in summer leaf

8 August 2017 -- Secret park

Boston Haikai 178 -- Staring at a cat

Staring at a cat
While it stares at a rabbit
The sun heads for bed

16 July 2017 -- De Graff house

Boston Haikai 177 -- July 4

Found perfect quiet,
Or close enough, in Brighton;
The fourth of July

4 July 2017 -- Brighton park

Boston Haikai 176 -- Toilet waves

Toilet water waves
in apparent sympathy
with the rain outside

6 June 2017 -- 1 AM

Boston Haikai 174 -- Pizza in the park

Pizza in the park
Waited on by a staff of
birds and eager dogs

4 June 2017 -- Boston Common

Boston Haikai 175 -- Button Swept Up

A button swept up
with the dust at ten pn
goes into the trash

3 June 2017