quarantine – Selected haiku

16 June 2020

single file and
spread apart describes walking
club, road reflectors

Inspired by Mansfield Park (1999).

white insects crawl on
Portsmouth table. not maggot
larvae, still quite gross

hidden, uneaten
flower, not yet ready to
reveal its colors

scattered leaves, chirp-like
wail, un-bushy tail; squirrel,
young and terrified

new pompoms resist 
assimilation by Borg-
grey pom collective