Thunder, Rain, Hail
Thunder, rain, hail – three ducks
swim under the bridge.
Thunder, rain, hail – six cats
and I run to the house.
Thunder, rain, hail – lightning
and candles: electricity’s down.
Thunder, rain, hail. I wake
to stillness.
M. Shayne Bell received a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts (1991). Bell's haiku have been published in Modern Haiku, Frogpond: Haiku Society of America, Heron's Nest, and many others. Bell's poetry has also been published in The Ghazal Page, Cathexis Northwest, Fibonacci Review, Typishly, Asimov’s, and Once Upon a Midnight (an anthology commemorating the 150th anniversary of Poe’s “The Raven”).
See more of M. Shayne Bell's work in 8.1