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AUTUMN HAIKU

 

Madeleine Findlay

 

either way
the uneven days of Fall
are finely tuned


easy
in the autumn breeze
wildflowers


in a red beret
an old woman makes change --
u-pick apples


autumn woods --
the yellow shafted flicker
takes the light


left to stand
the winter long --
roof ladder

 

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Tom D'Evelyn

 

the familiar smell
of my father’s mums—
fog on the river


crystalline
cold, earsplitting
crow


happiness-
the autumn river
is like a pond


autumn morning—
in different spots
that cormorant


night fog—
behind the cigarette
there must be a face



Labor Day—
all tied up, the tugs
rub each other


slow day—
over there, across the river,
patches of fog



the handrailing
down to the summer deck
slick with dew