Triad

(C) R.L.K.

JUST SO:
over the willows
a great blue heron climbs
toward the sunrise

THEN:
day clouded over --
we step off the porch
into spring rain

AND:
at gilded twilight
a silence slowly stretches out
across the pond

Tanka

(C) R.L.K.

1.
How strange , after all
these years, to think of her now,
just because the wind
is warm and the moonlight is
pouring down through the young leaves.

2.
Just one of those days:
sitting here on the porch with
little to do but
watch the sky turn hazy blue
after the rain ends.