Summer loneliness—
 
on this jasmine-scented path
 
no one walks with me.

 
 
 

refrigerator
 
humming a song to itself—
 
autumn loneliness

 
 
 

Mountain loneliness—
 
hunting in silence, the owl
 
overtakes its prey.

 
 
 

Into its shadow
 
a bell releases one note—
 
autumn loneliness.

 
 
 

My next-door neighbor
 
keeps raking leaves in the rain—
 
autumn loneliness.

 
 
 

Autumn loneliness:
 
within its shadow the bell
 
gathers one more note.

 
 
 

Autumn loneliness:
 
seeds fall from the birdfeeder
 
into a clay pot.

 
 
 

Autumn loneliness:
 
a crow in my neighbor’s oak
 
hurls insults at me.