lilac in full bloom --
bees bumping
into bees

Carole MacRury
the newspaper open
a moth rests
on my knuckle hairs

Paul Cordeiro







midsummer --
the grasshopper's thighs
are trembling

Ashe
a day of yardwork
an ant takes its shadow
into the clover

b'oki (Bette Wappner)







night study --
swatting a mosquito’s
shadow

Chris Eichenberger



















lilac in full bloom ... Tinywords 07/14/06
the newspaper open ... The Heron's Nest V8N4
midsummer ... author's haiga
a day of yardwork ... haigaonline V4 2003
night study ... Yellow Moon Seed Pearls Competition #20, 2006
insects ~ page 8