A Halloween’s Haiku

after
    frost—the pumpkin white as a cracked
        skull

       
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October 29th 2020

in
    the jack-o-lantern's mouth and out—
        leaves


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October 22nd 2020

so
    little time left—the cricket's singing still
        unhurried

       
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October 19th 2020

edge
    to edge—the barn roof and teetering 
        moon

       
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October 15th 2020

almost
    November—the wind in the empty swing-
        sets


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October 12th 2020

falling
    slowly into its dying reflection—a lakeside
        willow

    
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October 8th 2020

into
    the twists of her hair—early October's
        weather
      
       
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October 5th 2020

nightfall—
    though the crow departs the pumpkin stays
        put

       
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October 1st 2020

October—
    the trees and the scarecrow thinner and
        thinner

    
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October 31st 2019

wakened
    at midnight—a scarecrow where there was no
        scarecrow
    
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