ravens launch from the rocks
as the sun burns off the mist;
snow in the desert
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Jason Crane
2 December 2020
north of Charrizozo, NM
Category: Haiku
van floor: scuffed white Crocs
now playing: “Franklin’s Tower”
a great horned owl calls
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Jason Crane
25 November 2020
Tucson AZ
Cat Stevens’ voice breaks
when he sings the word “listen.”
Hummingbird flies off.
hummingbird (midair)
stops to look at me, hovers
flies over the wall
ceiling fan spinning
we hear the neighbors’ dog bark
social distancing
My awakened heart
races; February skies
promise later rain.
do you remember
the 21st night of sep-
tember? me either
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Jason Crane
2 December 2019
State College PA
falling locust leaves:
the sound of Stan Getz’s sax
obscured by mower
9.6.18
State College PA
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blue-black crows outrun
a car speeding down the street;
summer sun on wings
9.6.18
State College PA
nuthatch drops three seeds
finds the fourth acceptable
returns to the trees
8.25.18
State College PA
“Blues For A Hip King”
pinwheel spinning wildly ’round
no money no problems
8.23.18
State College PA
Johnny Dyani’s
bass notes compete with the breeze;
cool night for August
8.22.18
State College PA
for John Edwin Mason
Leave a Commentcicadas drown out
Schumann’s piano music
breeze spins the pinwheel
8.15.18
State College PA
mating dragonflies
try car after car; fickle
shoppers at Target
8.12.18
State College PA
four big crows gather,
majestic in their darkness;
poop, then fly away
8.7.18
State College PA
grasshopper softly
sits on the mallet waiting
for me to begin
8.5.18
O-An Zendo
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outside the window
a leaf that looks like a face
“hi, leaf, my name is—”
8.5.18
O-An Zendo