A Week That Was

Saturday    
     
1.    
I'm loath to comb the    
morning tangles    
from my long dark hair    
     
2.    
watching birds scatter    
the shadows of      
hot air balloons    
     
3.      
showering—    
connect constellations of      
freckles on his shoulders    
     
4.    
writing this haiku    
before bedtime    
the fridge faintly humming      
     
     
Sunday    
     
1.    
early morning walk—    
incontinent ladies    
and church dogs    
     
2.    
fixing breakfast    
cracks the curve of an egg    
with the curve of my hand      
     
3.      
at the zoo    
we sneak a grope    
by the python cage    
     
at the zoo    
the alpha baboon curls his      
lip up at me    
     
at the petting zoo    
the goats shit pellets    
constantly      
     
4.    
new rain arriving—    
a moment of night's passion paused    
while we listen    
     
Monday    
     
1.      
waking from dreams    
of chasing cats up a tree—    
am I the dog?    
     
tree-trimmers over      
at the park, down goes the tree      
from my dreams!    
     
2.    
toast waiting    
for the homemade jelly      
we just ran out of    
     
3.      
pomegranate halves, red    
on half-read newspaper—    
jelly-making day    
     
pomegranates—    
skin of their ruby seeds    
holding autumn in    
     
4.    
dreaming of jars      
of another year's jelly    
now in the pantry    
     
     
Tuesday    
     
1.    
hearing trees yawn      
in the wind    
I open my mouth    
     
2.    
morning tithe—    
I spoon out a honeydew    
its green perfume    
     
3.    
open-air market    
ripe persimmons, and the    
warm scent of last night    
     
4.    
today was his 'flu shot,    
tonight we share a bath—    
the pain a mem'ry    
     
     
Wednesday    
     
1.    
peering from its edge    
he sips a cup of tea    
as I cut pears in two      
     
2.    
phone sex—    
car windows down    
leaves and voices drift in    
     
3.    
sudden cloudburst—    
our reflection in the windshield    
becomes a deluge  

4.
haiku
punctuated by the replay
of gunfire on the news
     
5.    
tonight our clothes      
drip-drying in the tub    
distant thunder lulls us    
     
     
Thursday    
     
1.    
freeze-dried berries      
in a bowl of cornflakes, still    
my delight for the seeds    
     
2.    
late morning    
smoothing down the bed sheet—    
outlines of my tortoiseshell comb    
     
3.    
texting each other our haiku—    
tires hiss on      
rain-soaked streets    
     
4.    
home from work—    
finding me on the bed    
in a pile of warm laundry    
     
5.    
clay pots—    
nudes awaiting the brush    
soft laughter from the bedroom    
     
     
Friday    
     
1.    
from a window    
voyeur during his shower—    
dawn's autumn pallet      
     
2.    
lace curtain patterns    
from a kitchen breeze    
filling the fruit bowl    
     
3.    
curbside run-off    
of a graceful silhouette    
the flight of a crane    
     
4.    
chopping winter vegetables    
for stew—    
my thoughts of summer plums    
     
5.    
*my air to his fire—    
a position for ev'ry phase      
of the moon    
     
     
     
*Friday #5: our astrological elements    
Haiku/Senryu (Eastern poetry) each day of a week.    
11/21/15: seekingkate and Jade-Pandora tied for 2nd in the DU competition "Haiku Your Day".