Last week’s snow, now ice,
blackened, burdened, breaks off and
blocks the catch-basin.
Wind dies, mist thickens.
Raindrops fall, fast, then faster,
start to pool, then rise.
Halogen flood-lamp
reveals the rainbows flowing
down the rain-rinsed street.
Pile of papers soaks
through. Still-legible headline:
“Water Found on Mars!”
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Eden: Pre-Dawn
Posted by Pat Trombly at 8:02 AM
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4 comments:
I love the Mars one!
Appreciated the halogen lamp rainbows and also water on Mars. Is it real water I wonder? I mean, can we drink it?
Well, it's ice but ice is water.
It's a comparison between the two environments, both equally un-Earth-like.
Haiku has the function of depicting one nugget of nature - a bulb, full of meaning and beauty.
I am trying to direct that to also make an even broader point, or a few related ones.
The Mars piece is fun.
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