Here is the Poem of the Week for August 2, 2024. This is another hai-net (pronounced high net), a series of haiku that share some of the qualities of a classic sonnet. (I write a poem every day and wrote three of these this week and four sonnets.) Sweat had been literally pouring down me minutes before as I was out in another hot, humid day doing one of those order-making tasks, this time stacking firewood in the woodshed. Here is the text:

little rain forecast
somehow eight inches fell hard
we can’t trust the sky

feels good to stack wood
fold laundry make the house neat
some control somewhere

goldenrod sneezes
worth it–queen annes lace tall stocks
let mess be good too

slow storms make flash floods
gandhi prayed silent two weeks
then launched the salt march

pink steeplebush bloom
made up of many small flowers
church as a movement

fear makes us crazy
let the sky bring what it brings
if rain falls on love

love could fix the sky
enough love brings enough rain
if billions love hard

7/30/24