Hiking Haiku

Fourteen Hiking Haiku

for Joan Kunze

Step into Wellfleet woods

unleash dog

freedom

Life's simple today

blue jeans t-shirt leather boots

warm sun

Hiking within

e e cummings' leafy

green spirits

As fourteen white fluffs

punctuate his true

blue sky

Butterfly careens, dashes

darts, flutters, mindless of

meter

Mushrooms, born overnight,
fully formed, festoon path

honoring Plath

Residue of bonfire 

in clearing; strewn empty

containers

Come upon calm clear pure

Spectacle Pond

Narcissus

Kerouac's juju beads in mind

his knees cold

mine creaky

Maelstrom of earthly scents

scintillated dog

dead vole

Breathe in, yoga man,

'72 hitch-hiker recalled,

breathe out

Counting syllables

measuring meter

seeking rhyme

Aimless steps

going anyhere

no sense of time

Toward dusk, homeward bound,

reflecting: Lou Reed:

perfect day