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                                                        A COUNTRY HAIBUN

A murky sky on a late winter day.  The farm country is brown. Rolling pastures of dried brown grass, plowed fields of muddy dirt, corn fields left with a golden brown stubble. Here and there a white farmhouse with outbuildings in either red or white.  Otherwise, the vista is brown, brown, brown.

There is a subdued beauty about the brown hills, their sweep and curve, their valleys and ridges. A smoothness and a calmness in their brown coat.  A solid color, brown.  Dependable, lasting.  On this dull day horses and cows stand quietly in pastures.  The stillness of a painting by a Dutch master, but for the crows. 

                                                            cawing and pecking

                                                            down one hill and up another

                                                            black dots on brown

Bottle Rockets #17, August 2007

Haiku for Autumn

                                                              first glimpse of fall

                                                              what I planned to do . . .

                                                              what I did

                                                             slow line of traffic

                                                             above . . . the V formation

                                                             of geese

                                                             pelting the windshield

                                                             yellow poplar leaves

                                                             swished up by cars

Chrysanthemum 

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