Summer’s End

The following “Haiku from Index Cards” offer tinges of summer melancholy.       +

summer’s end . . .

I slip the cabin key

from my keychain

             (written 2012, published 2013)

summer’s end—

my old record player

skipping

             (written 2013, published 2018)

summer’s end—

sunflower seeds

under the bleachers

             (written 2013, published 2018)

summer’s end—

the clouds change

from your dream to mine

             (written 2008, published 2021)

summer’s end . . .

unfinished books

in a pile for the library

             (written 2012, published 2012)