Haiku Week

Great news, I finally got Have You Never Been Mellow by Olivia Newton John on my iPod. Even better news, all this week (promises promises) I am going to be putting up haiku or Approximations as Robert Hayden calls his:

Approximations

i
In dead of winter
wept beside your open grave.
Falling snow.

ii
Darkness, darkness.
I grope and falter. Flare
of a match.

iii
Not sunflowers, not
roses, but rocks in patterned
sand grow here. And bloom.

iv
On the platform at
dawn, grey mailbags waiting;
a crated coffin.