three haiku by David Joiner

​Out of Sorts
June squall in Japan –
   confusing the car’s wipers
      for the turn signal

Resolved
a gray sapling blinks
   on the summer-withered shore –
      heron at sunset

The Bee
a tired honeybee
   resting in a sunhat’s crown
      much too big to wear


David Joiner is the author of the novels Kanazawa (Stone Bridge Press, 2022), Lotusland (Guernica Editions, 2015), and The Heron Catchers (Stone Bridge Press, forthcoming). He has also published short fiction and nonfiction in a number of journals and magazines.