Six Haiku
merging
into a single blue
lake and sky
the crickets
sometimes
they change tune
horses snort
breath from their nostrils
fills the air
amid cracked stones
of the cemetery —
wild strawberries
slow falling star
forming a line
with the airplanes
Big Dipper
flying through it:
jet plane
Copyright © 2021 by Brett Taylor. All rights reserved. Old Roads is a collection of haiku and photographs by East Tennessee writer Brett Taylor. The photographs were taken in an array of Tennessee locations, including Wartburg, Petros, Greenback, Pall Mall, Norris, Cades Cove, and south Knoxville. Taylor has written for The South Carolina Review, Skeptical Inquirer, Fortean Times, Filmfax, Green Mountains Review, Folio, Ampersand, Redivider, Big Muddy and San Pedro River Review.
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