“It is life’s work to recognize the mystery of the obvious”
– Jim Harrison (Day Twenty-Seven – 28 Days of Unreason)

Honeycrisp apple –
Wife offers sweet mystery,
Temps me with a bite

“The river can’t heal everything” 
– Jim Harrison (Day Twenty-Five – 28 Days of Unreason)

Lips as split as sky –
The headwaters of mercy –
Rain on Golgotha

“Nature has portals, rather than doors”
– Jim Harrison (Day Twenty-Four– 28 Days of Unreason)

Kelp, brack, salt and mud
Moon pulls blanket from the bed –
Smell slams angry door

"Like many poets I’m part blackbird and part red squirrel and my brain chatters, shrieks, and whistles."
– Jim Harrison (Day Twenty-One – 28 Days of Unreason)

Quiet sensing wind
.22 Longs for season –
Waiting for the fall

"Words are moving water, muddy, clear, or both"
– Jim Harrison (Day Twenty – 28 Days of Unreason)

Gin-clear morning light
Feels like dirty martini
Drunk with cloudy dreams

“We were born to be moving water not ice”
– Jim Harrison (Day Eighteen – 28 Days of Unreason)

Nanook says we must
Chop ice, carry water –
Zen of the igloo

“We walk the bottom of an ocean we call sky”
– Jim Harrison (Day Sixteen – 28 Days of Unreason)

Light’s flash up and down
Waterfall tumbles rainbows
Dizzy, flustered fish

“The moon is to blame. I am innocent”
– Jim Harrison (Day Fourteen – 28 Days of Unreason)

Moon uninvited
Rambunctious deer are stymied
Clouds hide boozy light

Also sending to Ronovan Writes Party/Enjoy

“The beauty of the rattlesnake is in its threat”
– Jim Harrison (Day Twelve – 28 Days of Unreason)

Sap in Autumn trees,
Leaves uncoil red and gold,
Slow from sunlight’s bite.

*Also linking back to  Carpe Diem Haiku Kai – “Waiting for Autumn”

“Much that you see isn’t with your eyes”
– Jim Harrison    (Day Ten – 28 Days of Unreason)

Grey toad sits in ash
Memory of dimming coals
Unseen forest burns