American Haiku (Copyright 1959) Early morning yellow flowers, thinking about the drunkards of Mexico................. No telegram today only more leaves fell.......................... Nightfall, boy smashing dandelions with a stick........... Holding up my purring cat to the moon I sighed................. Drunk as a hoot owl, writing letters by thunderstorm..................... Empty baseball field a robin hops along the bench........................ All day long wearing a hat that wasn't on my head............................. Crossing the football field coming home from work - the lonely businessman............................ After the shower among the drenched roses the bird thrashing in the bath................................ Snap your finger stop the world - rain falls harder..................................... Nightfall, too dark to read the page too cold.............................. Following each other my cats stop when it thunders............................... Wash hung out by moonlight Friday night in May.................................... The bottoms of my shoes are clean from walking in the rain..................................... Glow worm sleeping on this flower - your light's on..........................................
The Northport Haiku (Copyright 1964)
Close your eyes - Landlord knocking On the back door..................................... A quiet Autumn night and these fools Are starting to argue..................................... Lonely brickwalls in Detroit Sunday afternoon piss call.............................. O for Vermont again - The barn on an Autumn night................................. Fiddlydee! - Another day, Another something-or-other!..................................... Whatever it is, I quit -now I'll let my breath out -......................................... How many cats they need around here For any orgy?............................................. Tonight I'll lower my tail -- I've seen them around town........................................... In Haikkaido a cat has no luck...................................... Every cat in Kyoto can see through the fog............................................ The birds start singing but he is in the cat meadows............................................. I'll climb up a tree and scratch Katapatafataya.......................................... If I go out now, my paws will get wet................................... A car is coming but the cat knows It's not a snake.................................. In London-town cats can sleep In the butcher's doorway.................................. I should have scratched that spot before I started to sleep........................................ Haiku my eyes! my mother is calling!....................................
from Book of Haiku (Copyright 1968)
Arms folded to the moon, Among the cows..................................... Birds singing in the dark - Rainy dawn.............................................. Elephants munching on grass - loving Head side by side........................................ Missing a kick at the icebox door It closed anyway................................
This July evening, a large frog On my door sill..................................... Catfish fighting for his life, and winning, Splashing us all...................................... Evening coming - the office girl Unloosing her scarf..................................... The low yellow moon above the Quiet lamplit house.................................... Shall I say no? - fly rubbing its back legs................................. Unencouraging sign - the fish store Is closed.............................. Nodding against the wall, the flowers Sneeze.................................... Straining at the padlock, the garage doors At noon....................................... The taste of rain - Why kneel?................................... The moon, the falling star - Look elsewhere..................................... The rain has filled the birdbath Again, almost.................................... And the quiet cat sitting by the post Perceives the moon..................................... Useless, useless, the heavy rain Driving into the sea....................................... Juju beads on the Zen manual: My knees are cold............................................. Those birds sitting out there on the fence - They're all going to die.............................................. The bottoms of my shoes are wet from walking in the rain.............................................. In my medicine cabinet, the winter fly has died of old age............................................. November - how nasal the drunken Conductor's call.................................... The moon had a cat's mustache For a second............................................ A big fat flake of snow Falling all alone......................................... The summer chair rocking by itself In the blizzard.........................................
from Heaven and Other Poems (Copyright 1977/Posthumous) The little worm lowers itself from the roof By a self shat thread..........................................
from the novel Desolation Angels (Copyright 1965)
A bubble, a shadow - woop - The lightning flash............................. Thunder in the mountains - the iron Of my mother's love............................... Mist boiling from the ridge - the mountains Are clean................................... Mist before the peak - the dream Goes on.......................................... as cold water in a dell on a dusty tired trail -.................................... Girls' footprints in the sand - Old mossy pile................................... Wooden house raw gray - Pink light in the window...................................... Neons, Chinese restaurants coming on - Girls come by shades.......................................
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