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Afternoon

A nearly cloudless blue sky welcomes visitors to the Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona.
winter afternoon—
instead of snow, some shadows
and a lonesome dove
Haiku and photo © by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Rainfall

Winter rains leave patches of green in the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Southern California.
a little rainfall
and the wilderness turns green—
winter afternoon
Haiku and photo © by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Shadows

Nighttime shadows surround a house in Yuma County, Arizona.
On a wintry night
in southern Arizona
shadows multiply.
Haiku and photo © by Magical Mystical Teacher
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New Coat

A snowy forest in northern New Mexico.
last days of the year—
even the old pine forest
puts on a new coat
Haiku and photo © by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Windmill

A windmill stands still on a windless December day at Robert J. Moody Demonstration Garden , Yuma, Arizona.
Blades of the windmill—
how many times will they turn
before I reach home?
Haiku and photo © by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Three Haiku for Winter

Palo verde tree on a wintry afternoon, Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona.
Winter afternoon—
a nearly empty sky fills
with sudden birdsong.
first winter shower—
milkweed fluff from shattered pods
flying everywhere
Our ancestors knew
how to use needle and thread
to patch a torn sky.
Haiku and photo © by Magical Mystical Teacher
Weight

A gravesite memorial seems ready to fall at Yuma Pioneer Cemetery, Yuma, Arizona.
among the tombstones
one leaning memorial—
the weight of winter
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Prayer House

Old adobe building, Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Preserve, Riverside County, California.
little house of prayer
in the shadows of the oak—
come, O Spirit, come
Haiku and photo © by Magical Mystical Teacher
Wind

Sonoran Desert, Southern Arizona.
In the wilderness
wind keeps erasing the path
I plan to follow.
Haiku © 2018 and photo © 2012 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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Conversations

Sunrise at a motel in Mojave, California.
Morning by morning
the wrens and roses converse
in an unknown tongue.
Haiku and photo © 2018 by Magical Mystical Teacher
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