Haibun for August
by Marcel Aime' Duclos
Having learned to live satisfied in the naked now, black-bellied magpies find cover under the evergreens; mountain cottontails hop to their foraging; the
northern flicker returns alone this morning; tree sparrows and house finches
populate the stripped, dry branches of the dying oak–ornaments sanctifying
the season in the company of a downy woodpecker and red-winged blackbirds: all this plumage hidden to the blind, and the western bluebirds breaking
through the moment to satisfy. How else to satisfy what is enough?
clouds heavy with rain
grasses and creatures await
wet late-day blessing
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