Haiku month

November 30, 2009:  Crow's Nest, Jimmy

grilled chicken bacon
crisp veggies a taco shell
render to Caesar

November 29, 2009:  Crow's Nest, Jimmy

monkey, sloth, opossum
arboreal denizens
by night and by day

November 28, 2009:  Crow's Nest, Jimmy

missing for three days
girl turns up tired and hungry
in Corcovado

November 27, 2009:  Crow's Nest, Jimmy

unmanned boat adrift
rusty smears in strange places
the sea no sure friend

November 26, 2009:  THANKSGIVING DAY, Crow's Nest, Jimmy

warm rain, fresh mown grass
hot bread, sea spume, pheromones
things I like to smell

November 25, 2009, Villa Bekuo, Perez Zeledon

nacreous pink whorls
golden rectangle chambers
where nautilus lives

November 24, 2009, Tucan Hotel, Uvita

bake the crested guan
turtle eggs and conch fritters
Thanksgiving again

November 23, 2009, Crow's Nest, Jimmy

mangrove castannettes
smell touch taste the swelling tide
sunrise also comes

November 22, 2009, Crow's Nest, Jimmy

eleven o'clock
Eucharist or mimosa?
it's Sunday morning

November 21, 2009, Crow's Nest, Jimmy

lavender twilight
the parrots return to roost
the drinking begins

November 20, 2009, Crow's Nest, Jimmy

whale song horizon
moon's alabaster crescent
few favorite things

November 19, 2009, Crow's Nest, Jimmy

November's acorn
may April's sapling become
a squirrel's playground

November 18, 2009, Tucan Hotel, Uvita

Venus exploded
comets lit the sky on fire
Mars fell fast asleep

November 17, 2009, Tucan Hotel, Uvita

catch the falling rain
let the springs in freedom flow
nurture the mother

November 16, 2009, Uvita bunk house

breezes in the hills
littoral woods drown in rain
summertime is nigh

November 15, 2009, Uvita bunk house

cash flow man power
well-planted trees sacred cow
just a numbers game

November 14, 2009, Uvita bunk house

hard wood and metal
stone circuit board plastic sun
green dialectic

November 13, 2009, San Jose Adventure Inn

water on the moon
a cold San Jose drizzle
rush hour traffic jam

Monkeying around at the Jungla, Uvita	The Khan Man works	The Uvita bunk house	bunk house, hive view	Water

November 12, 2009, Uvita

Hatillo ridge line
old growth ocean view wild life
water and power

Installing lid, Copete	The electrical run	valve register	tank outlet	uvita bunk house

November 11, 2009, Uvita

awake before dawn
what will the new boss be like?
first day on the job.

November 10, 2009, Puerto Jimenez

my joe's got sugar
fresh cream from a moo moo cow
off to the races

November 9, 2009, Puerto Jimenez

hitching with a board
while Matapalo rages
under the mango

November 8, 2009, Puerto Jimenez

nine millimeter
cross the line if you wanna
meet the maker man

November 7, 2009, Puerto Jimenez

gentle rings of smoke
savaged by the ceiling fan
smells like teen spirit

Storage tank before pour; Copete and Dan	Storage tank after pour and stone stucco; Copete	Little fuschia flower	The latest infiltration gallery location; that is a rock	Central Pacific coast; Manuel Antonio in the far distance

November 6, 2009, Puerto Jimenez

shadows steal the night
a hot rain falls softly down
what's left is soon gone

November 5, 2009, Puerto Jimenez

tequila malbec
chill tenderloin capresse
the palate's God-spot

Cascada el Diamante, Tinamastes	Alex, view toward spring intake	Tenderloin carpaccio	Amazing Grace	Dan with carpaccio and Malbec

November 4, 2009, Puerto Jimenez

wet black winding road
vapors reaching for the stars
Ruby threads the night.

November 3, 2009, Uvita

they're hiring I hear
can't pay my electric bill
twelve foot swell, you say?

November 2, 2009, Carate

mist on the water
chirps and trills quicken the night
a geccko pounces

Peanut grass	Playa Lapa front porch	Good help is hard to find	Erick agrees	By now a Carate institution

November 1, 2009, Puerto Jimenez

a palm frond dances
Jimmy opens dusty eyes
happy sun delights