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Crow
El Malpais National Monument, New Mexico
Crow in the pine tree,
will you ever stop mocking
what you can’t explain?
Haiku and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Crow
Ajo, Arizona
Summer afternoon—
a crow in the tallest palm
jeers at passersby.
Haiku and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Caw
Barrel cactus made plump by winter rains in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Southern California
On the sharpest spine
of an old barrel cactus
a crow leaves its caw.
Haiku and photo © 2017 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Faraway
In the foreground, an ironwood tree, Sonoran Desert, Maricopa County, Arizona
wilderness morning—
how the faraway mountains
tug at the crow’s wings
Haiku and photo © 2016 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Crow
Navajo National Monument, Northern Arizona
Through the cloudless sky
a crow forges a new path
to its nest of twigs.
Haiku © 2016 and photo © 2014 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Mountains
A mountain range at dawn, Sonoran Desert, Yuma County, Arizona
a new day breaking
over the distant mountains—
one crow tells the tale
Haiku and photo © 2016 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Snow
Dead mullein stalks, poking out of snow, northern New Mexico
first rooster crowing—
under a blanket of snow
three brown field mice stir
Haiku © 2016 and photo © 2015 by Magical Mystical Teacher
Clumsy Attempts
~~ 1 ~~
wide-awake children
in refugee settlements
whirling at midnight
~~ 2 ~~
in the poppy field
no sign of holy water—
pilgrim pushes on
~~ 3 ~~
Why begrudge the stone
underneath the forest pine
its endless silence?
~~ 4 ~~
her shouts of anger
pulling him out of his dreams
Sunday afternoon
~~ 5 ~~
a spider
bereft of its web
in mourning
~~ 6 ~~
molecules of dust
settling in the dead man’s eyes
open and staring
~~ 7 ~~
how from the crow’s tongue
seven shrill alarms clang out
over the cornfield
~~ 8 ~~
how the youngest child
fearing the sting of the wasp
runs from the meadow
~~ 9 ~~
sunny afternoon
in the middle of winter—
ten thousand questions
~~ 10 ~~
her clumsy attempts
to make sense out of nonsense—
the latest shooting
Haiku © 2015 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Beyond
Early September, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Southern California
beyond the mountains
maybe fifty miles or more
oak the crow calls home
Haiku and photo © 2015 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Branches
A Southern California oak grove
A wandering crow
settles among oak branches—
three caws to the wind.
Text and photo © 2015 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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