Haiku is a traditional Japanese form.  Whatever the number of syllables, or lines, haiku are intended to express and evoke emotion.  Cor van den Heuvel said a haiku is a short poem recording the essence of a moment keenly perceived in which nature is linked to human nature.  With small linocuts (3 inch x 3 inch), I’m illustrating a series of haiku I’ve written.  The prints are intended to be evocative of the haiku or just taken, alone, for what they provoke.
Sun; waves lapping. The boat used to be red.	Streams, rain, even tears, join and invent the ocean to reflect moonlight.	Two girls. Paper, careful folds - a bowl of birds.
Tide widens the shore revealing mysteries. Mussels for crows.	The garden is hot. Walking with her, I smell our rose from home.	Moose across the lake, she watches us watching her. She looks at her calf.
My eyes follow the tracery of treetops. Between earth and sky.	In the morning, the river is there. Still.	Heron: stately, still… patient offshore silhouette. Nick barks, heron squawks!
Bright sun; the lake. I have to look away.	The shivering cry of the loon reminds me of love. And loneliness.	Wing beats in the wind; raven low over the pier. Silence of feathers.