Deer hunting season - early November

A Haiku Sequence
by Pat Laster

I. rigs' slow migrations
this early autumn Friday
deerhunter hopefuls

II. chill, misty dawn
Lord-God peckerwood clucking
in the distance

III. unscattered darkness
clumping in leafy places
the patter of acorns

IV. doe slips from shadows
faint sound of gunfire
across the morning

V. solitude
where the doe had been
distant clap & boom


VI. rainy Monday
smattering of rigs heading
back to routine

--haiku-ized from an Arkansas Times column by Bob Lancaster published during November of 1997.

c 2011 by Pat Laster dba lovepat press