HAIKU
On arrival
the long-loved and rarely -heard
whippoorwill
mocker to the wire
then to a nearby scrub oak
calls - but no answer
early summer
outside in my gowntail
just me and the birds
closing my journal
I spy a cardinal
pecking in the leaves
gray roadrunner
scurrying past our condo
then back to the woods
CINQUAIN
Stupid
move: with my hand,
I check inside my shoes
in case a Texas scorpion
crawled in.
Locusts,
like tree rattlers,
season the North Texas
air. Now and then a roadrunner
speeds by.
Later, y'all! pl
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Good stuff. Pappy
ReplyDeleteI love it. What Texans do is turn their shoes over and pound the bottom to get rid of varmints. Dot
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