Sisters' trip to North Texas

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