fall – Selected haiku

20 November 2021 – II

bird hunted for break-
-fast next to coffee shop where
I’d order my own

awake before the
farmers’ market closed, I bought 
bread as a reward

squirrel eats pumpkin
decorations, a welcome
break from endless nuts

ashes to ashes 
leave torn to shreds underfoot
will become leaf dust

garbage tableau; shoe,
in step with pallets, waiting
to be carted off

leafy tarpaulin 
looks treacherously solid,
dry (from a distance)

two weeks ago, I shoved
hands into apple trees, or
perhaps I... fisted

fallen leaves, ground down 
against sidewalk, shall return
borrowed nitrogen

few sunflowers near
lake hold petals, most neighbors’ 
heads are bald and dry

Here are some haiku I composed at work, back when I used to work in an office.