Haikus for Carol

 (for a dear friend who committed suicide)

       i

 

the inrushing sea

reaches for the swift ankles

of fleeing sandbirds

 

      ii

 

on a recent day

it caught the slow ankles of

a woman, a friend

 

      iii

 

now soft surf music

whispers, and i’m wondering:

where has her voice gone?

 

      iv

 

sea draws its bright glass

across the sand; small clams hide,

leave only bubbles