bone moon – – haibun

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February. Browsing the blog reader I read of snowdrops and daffodils….in other places. Here, the temperature plunges to 20 below and we adjust. By late winter we know well-rehearsed adjustments: we plan departures 10 minutes early to allow time to warmup the car, I toss extra comforters everywhere, and my old ski pants re-report for duty. The trampoline rhythm of hard to soft cold is almost routine.

A significant jolt will come when temperatures stay above 5 degrees and climb higher. Metabolisms, opportunities, and menus will change in ways we may have forgotten since last spring…

bone moon time

we wash blankets and brew tea

relaxing

to house drones and trickles

the avocado grows its first leaf

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©️2020 Ontheland

February moon is sometimes called “Bone moon” due to bone-chilling cold.

Haikai Challenge #126 – – Returning Cold

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My name is Janice.  I started blogging as Ontheland when I moved from Toronto to a rural area near Kingston, Ontario in Canada.  Over time I have found myself writing poetry, mostly in Japanese forms, such as haiku and haibun.  One of my deepest interests is the natural world: the joy of it and how we can look after it better.

21 thoughts on “bone moon – – haibun”

    1. Thank you, Pat. It’s on my windowsill of course. Sturdy is a good word for it. From where I am sitting, the main root and the stem appear to be as straight as a ramrod going through the seed (suspended in water).

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