dragonfly season
dragonfly season
hovers indifferently
on transparent wings


a low cabin
from a low cabin
a house with new additions
stretches out its wings

The Cabot Plains Haiku: a work in progress

I have been visiting friends in Cabot Plains Vermont almost every year ever 1991. The Cabot Plains Haiku have quietly amassed, forming the back-bone of an unfinishable portrait of a physical place, and an exquisite bridge between eras, families and friends. In addition to approximately 36 haiku poems there are numerous pen and ink drawings, photographs, roadmaps and physical traces collected during each visit.

This latest web representation of "The Cabot Plains Haiku" remains in an early, experimental phase pending my next visit. The slow, fading scroll of the text echoes the elusive nature of memory as perspective shifts with the passage of time.

view a selection of "The Cabot Plains Haiku"




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