over 500 photographs with haiku, from 2021 – 2025, are online at instagram @being_ryl
april 2026
two Canada geese
travel north— last sunny Bay
Area morning
farmland stay—
roosters crow in all
directions
in light rain—
golf course mower hum
and birdsong
new to the island—
wandering curiously
in all directions
febraury 2026
my shadow
taken for granted—
rain
forecasted
with much rain—
store parking lot is
a small lake
hours into
new year moon— thunder
rumbling by
as light grows
my morning shadow
walks me home
morning pink
across all the sky—
hockey gold
almost full—
Snow Moon setting over
Redwood tree
this Imbolc—
wandering towards
morning light
walking with
moon as companion—
quiet dark
transitions
sun rising, moon sets
on Imbolc
january 2026
cold weather—
the squeak of dry snow
under foot
just before it was
buried deep— a dry brown leaf
tumbling in the snow
at a vast field’s edge
small brown songbirds peck slowly
in the thin dry snow
from the boat
the shore seems to
disappear