Haiku 2021 - #291

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October 6th ...

a little burn in 

fingers of maple

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Traffic in the pooling rain ...

to every drop

a cup.

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Scratchings

and whispers from hollows

... the cat

declines.

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Shhh, October leaves

no they don't, and they won't

listen ...

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Children teased

tossed round 'n round

in the maple seed rains ...

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Stripped to the bone

the trees all a'tickle

... autumn moon.

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Samhain moon ...

shards their shadows clickety-clack

this way and back.

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Slogging home

puddle to puddle

... autumn moon.

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Lost to thought and rain ...

the snap of an alder's

scuttled bone.

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... waves of pages

to the shallows catching

moments from the trees ...

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The cat's piss

in autumn leaves

... t'ain't no call ta shout.

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Bent and broken tines ...

a tattered web and rusts

of other autumns.

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Peeling forest ...

the hawk fades

to a rusting mist.

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Sooted panes ...

a grit of crows bending

streaks of sycamore.

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Of things peppered:

crows flocking in slate skies

... ash of autumn leaves.

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Roost of dressed stones ...

crows cawling arrivals

departures.

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Autumn sits ...

a passing fuss

of crows.

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Of things black:

a stone's tight heart, its belly

its face in autumn rain.

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Of things feathered:

lights passing in the rain

... shadows in wet glass.

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Smack! ...

a last mosquito

chasing autumn leaves.

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