Monday, April 27, 2009

California Haiku

One more snow cap peak
another icy river
approaching land’s end






Closed-down bars hotels
a hawk leaves a leafless tree
flies over the train






Wild west railroad bridge
a stone bison emerges
patchy winter fur






A frozen basin
the sun highlights ridge-back hills
places no one walks






The evening star bright
a final sculpted sundown
lonely Christmas lights






Magenta skyline
to indigo night-time
in thirty degrees






Lucid moon and stars
a moving wall of fir trees
open train window






In crystalline night
coming down from the mountains
slow snowfall of stars


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