haiku fifty nine

snail rustles deeper

into the parched mullein

quivering

quivering

quivering

~

hunch

first drops of cool rain…

undergrowth trembles –

snail in top gear

~

After Basho 🙂

sharing

after the thunderstorm 

a silver trail

to my vegetable garden

~

Part of a seventeenth century painting by Nicholaes Lachtropius. Riiksmuseum, Amsterdam.