Look! Leopard colours: haiku and things for March 2007

2/3/07:

Look! Leopard colours
in the creek, floating, drowning,
the first fallen leaf.


3/3/07:

It is just starting
to be Friday in Texas.
It's warm and windy.

Here, it's a hot night.
The breeze is light, with an edge.
Lads go past, yelling.

I think of Austin,
April Austin with poems
yelled on wild warm nights.


9/3/07:

I'm late here tonight
to swim my autumn river.
The breeze has a chill.

The tide runs out fast.
The rowboat up yonder slows.
I make for the shore.


12/3/07:

Observation

Friday came and went.
Many refrained from haiku
as the season changed.


16/3/07:

The nights grow cooler.
The street shuts its doors early
and draws the curtains.


20/3/07:

Winter is coming.
Then I can wear my SWAT boots
I got in Texas.


21/3/07:

An outgoing tide
takes us gently, suddenly
beyond our limits.


28/3/07:

Blustery day here.
We head south: even colder.
Swimming's over now.


© Rosemary Nissen-Wade 2007