Haikus of Texas
Kathryn Jones
August 21, 2022
White bones lie gleaming
On red rock carved by dry wind
Skeletons of time.
River of gray stones
Silent in summer’s embrace
Yet screaming for rain.
Ivory moon hung
On an ebony tree branch
Clouds caught on the thorns.
Kathryn Jones is a journalist, essayist, author, and poet. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Texas Monthly, and in the anthologies A Uniquely American Epic: Intimacy and Action, Tenderness and Action in Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch (University Press of Kentucky, 2019) and Pickers and Poets: The Ruthlessly Poetic Singer-Songwriters of Texas. Her poetry has been published on tejacovido.com, in the Langdon Review of the Arts in Texas, and Odes and Elegies: Eco-Poetry from the Texas Gulf Coast. She was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters in 2016.
