baboon onshore
grooms infant as hippo
glides past in water.
Too Close for Comfort? [Haiku]
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cold Spring day:
feels too chilly
to be so green.

one-legged crow squats
to explode into flight;
false alarm!
The mountain and the squirrel
Had a quarrel;
And the former called the latter ‘Little Prig.’
Bun replied,
‘You are doubtless very big;
But all sorts of things and weather
Must be taken in together,
To make up a year
And a sphere.
And I think it no disgrace
To occupy my place.
If I'm not so large as you,
You are not so small as I,
And not half so spry.
I'll not deny you make
A very pretty squirrel track;
Talents differ; all is well and wisely put;
If I cannot carry forests on my back,
Neither can you crack a nut.’

butterfly lands
on flower, pumps wings twice,
and sputters off.

a single branch,
leafless but bloom-laden,
against the Autumn moon.