Haiku From The Top Of Deck Ten


Dome of day-lit blue
Horizon laced with scarlet fire
Comes the Midnight Sun


Sky burns with sunset
Three hours waiting for midnight
A wet moon rises


The sky at midnight
Is lit with coral and pearls
The roof of the world


I hear them calling
Through time and the deep Northern sky
Great Gods of the past


She rises shadowed
In veils of amber and pearl
Wet moon from the sea


Incandescent West
The Midnight Sun still paints they sky
Sea gives birth to moon


Alabaster moon
Scattering a trail of stars
In the midnight sea


Woven in the West
Sun still simmers the midnight sky
Wet moon rises East


Midnight Western sun
The nightwalking moon rises full
a gift from the sea


West blazes midnight
East gifts the sky with marble moon
Silence sings between


Haiku From the Edge of Exhaustion

The last time I slept . . .
I cannot even remember
The last time I slept


From the East, far North
Today I have chased the swift sun
Half way ‘round the world


Study in pastels
Sunset over the Great Salt Lake
Sink me in the sun


West into fire
Coming home from the Midnight Sun
On wings of white light


All the world’s beauty
Is wrapped in this final soft light
The green hills of home