Haiku-a-day
A black and white dog lays peacefully on a couch looking at the person who loves him most.

You, at the center —
the heartbreaking commonplace
that’s now empty, gone.

C.S. Lewis (“…tiny, heartbreaking commonplace”)

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A black and white dog lays peacefully in the grass in shadows and dappled sun looking at the person who loves him most.

In these cold shadows
I try each day to make sense
of where you are now.

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A black and white dog lays solemnly in front of a doorwall in shadow and light sun looking at the person who loves him most.

The door freezing shut
at dawn sounded like footsteps,
I thought it was you.

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Haiku-a-day
A black and white dog lays in the grass in a backyard with the person who loves him most.

Your very being,
warm, lying in the cool grass —
Mack, where are you now?

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A black and white dog lays calmly on a counch looking at the person who loves him most.

February gloom —
these days, living with this grief,
it’s its own sad thing.

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A black and white dog happily discovers a patch of wild lily of the valley blooming in the forest with the person who loves him most.

You picked up their scent,
wild lily of the valley,
just out, of the earth.

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A black and white dog happily rolls in the grass with his eyes closed in summer.

Your name in my mouth,
I still say it every day —
you loved being here.

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A black and white dog happily walks through wildflowers in a meadow with the person who loves him most.

In your habitat
among the wild wildflowers
deep in the meadow.

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Haiku-a-day
A black and white dog walks through a jack pine forest with the person who loves him most.

We found a carved heart
in the bark of a jack pine,
the ground, a loose web.

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A black and white dog walks on a deer path through the woods with the person who loves him most.

Made by white-tailed deer,
we walk the long river path,
see the way they see.

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A black and white dog lays in the summer grass with a bouquet of mock orange flowers in front of him with the person who loves him most.

The soft breath of June,
mock orange in the summer,
lilacs in spring.

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Haiku-a-day
A black and white dog sits lazily in the grass with a small bouquet of mock orange flowers offered to him by the person who loves him most.

All of our summers
I offered you fresh bouquets,
earth and sky were ours.

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A black and white dog stands alert in the forest on a sunny winter day with the person who loves him most.

Sunlight in the woods,
your fur, the color of snow,
shadow, and warm earth.

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Haiku-a-day
A black and white dog sits in the grass on a sunny day looking at the person who loves him most.

Your time here on earth,
your warm body on warm grass,
we shared the same loves.

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Haiku-a-day
A black and white dog pauses on a snowy path looking back with the person who loves him most.

Heart around your neck,
red metal with your name: MACK,
I say it today.

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Haiku-a-day
A black and white dog pauses on a snowy path looking at the person who loves him most.

Just us on the path,
excitement in your portrait
about what’s ahead.

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A black and white dog walks curiously along a faded deer path turough wild carrot, goldenrod and tall grass towards a field covered in a low bank of fog with the person who loves him most.

The meadow deer path
led us through soft wild carrot,
fog, clinging to it.

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Haiku-a-day
A black and white dog stands happily in a snowy forest with his head covered in small snowflakes with the person who loves him most.

Snowflakes in your ears,
your warm bed ready at home,
no end to our luck.

(two months without you)

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