Adventure Haikus

By Sara Aranda

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Tree bark, buried soil

the snow catches the pine boughs

wind-blown like sand dunes.

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Elk track through the trees

gentle dimples for white flesh,

my eyes are too late.

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Abandon your boots

let wet laces paint the floor

let the floor melt too.

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Ice on the window,

look harder, laid crystal bones

crawling thick with need.

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Fish in the pine creek

lend your line of hunger,

watch the surface dance.

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Gold light winks, leads me

to crystalline blood of you,

dark and wounded pine.

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I took a wild path

found the sun caught in dead tree,

yet how nothing burned.

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Mountain goat of white

grazes calm in the alpine

where the wind does not.

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Run through the desert

and find on red canyon walls

paint of living hands.

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There’s a lonely tree

in the midst of meadow grass—

how it stares at me.

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