Sketchbook  Karina Klesko, US

 

 

Haiku Birds of Louisiana winter sky gray—blue marked with white a rock dove takes flight     beyond sunset the long tapering tail of a mourning dove     between the riffs of blue and green waters storm petrels gather     white-face Ibis the mime on the street corner mistaken for a statue     Night Heron— do you wear the darkness as a crown?     the American flag homesteading in cajun country a little blue heron     mardi gras we toss bread crumbs to the masked ducks     a clay colored sparrow among strings of white blossoms evening vespers

 

 

Free Verse Lake Ontario bay side sailfish waiting for a wind my sneakers pad softly down the old wooden pier a pail of worms writhing in smelly water I watch a man behind the counter gut and clean a string of fish in what seems like seconds there's a strange sweetness thickening the air seagulls float slowly by from gray winter buds white dogwood blossoms in swirls of deepening greens a sunfish surfaces to take a nibble of things outside its world

 

 

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