TWO MODERN HAIKUS*

Wintry Day, California
Brown man in black hooded
jacket jogging. Tree-lined pathway
shining bright in morning rain.

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frail woman, laughing, in yellowed
photograph criscrosses
the mind: the silence of sunflowers
on hillside in summer.


*Not necessarily the 5-7-5 syllables structure. As ancient practitioners tell us, haiku poetry is the rendering of experience, not a comment on it.
No embellishments. Just the cold bloody facts--what,where, when-- like those Desiree Caluza would gather for her Inquirer news articles.

photo: the author's jogging route in Winchester