Doubling Down

All fourteen daily haiku from Haiku Andy 05.27.24 - 06.09.24

Between the holiday weekend and a rapid trip to Mexico City (Casa Azul was awesome), I haven’t really been able to give much thought to what to write in this space. Or rather, I get too many ideas and then feel all pretentious when I try writing about any of them.

Originally, I just wanted to post a digest of the haiku photos here, once a week. I shouldn’t feel bad about not writing a mini-essay. So here I am, and here are two weeks of haiku postcards, and where I mailed them to.

(If you don’t want to wait, I am very disciplined when it comes to posting each day’s haiku on Instagram and my own Web site, where you can subscribe and get them in your inbox.)

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haiku 20240527 (New York, NY USA)

watering

someone else's garden

memorial day

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haiku 20240528 (New York, NY USA)

late may evening

the cat lingers in the fence

watching it grow dark

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haiku 20240529 (San Francisco, CA USA)

early evening

I gather strawberries

while it's still light

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haiku 20240530 (Salem, OR USA)

twilight stroll

the sudden clatter

of deer

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haiku 20240531 (Cranford, NJ USA)

porch light swarm

how I imagine

the electron cloud

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haiku 20240601 (Questa, NM USA)

tai chi practice

something ancient

guides my movements

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haiku 20240602 (Fairfax, CA USA)

hanging pictures

an art my father

never taught me

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haiku 20240603 (Long Beach, CA USA)

gold country café

original brick and beams

and vegan bowls

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haiku 20240604 (Keene, NH USA)

night before a flight

listing out the things

I'll forget to pack

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haiku 20240605 (Greenwich, CT USA)

sierra foothills

sawtooth pine trees

line the horizon

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haiku 20240606 (Bellingham, WA USA)

mexico city

we walk past skyscrapers

to tour the ruins

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haiku 20240607 (Norwich, VT USA)

polanco district

birds I've never heard before

wake me before dawn

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haiku 20240608 (New York, NY USA)

broken sidewalk

an ancient root

makes itself known

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haiku 20240609 (Stockbridge, MA USA)

mexico city

taking our breath away

altitude sickness

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And that’s all, folks! Usually I go on to beg you to let me send you a card and recommend a bunch of books, but Substack is cutting me off, lengthwise. Back to usual next week.