haiku

​paralyzed --tenuously suspendedbetween grief and hope

votedcivic duty accomplishedoutvoted

on the sandy shorering-billed gull skitters to avoid the tide --clam dinner lost

silent frozen lakegrey-haired man sits quietlyalone not lonely

oddly delicioustop first, middle, then bottom --candy corn

the colors of hugsdistributed bow-likeafter the storm

action antiherothe Superman of Halloween:Michael Myers

white breadbaloney with mustard --childhood

best to worst:Zombie, Carpenter, Green--Halloween

sitting at the tablethe man works as he finishesa bottle of red wine

curves or levelsthe choice is stylistici prefer levels

huddled in a doorwayman peers through red cap and scarfnot asking for help

full moon is really halfwhile quarter moon is aptly named --unobserved dark side

eastern white pinestanding tall at yard's edgestately canopy

in the dewy grassbrown rotting crabapplehalf-eaten, worm-holed

racist misogynistsitting on the throne --the horror, the horror

oil-covered penguinblatant cautionary tale --human destruction

into the rising sunthe old man walks the highwayt'ward his childhood home

spreading through the grassgreen shoots with green berriesturning white then red

child screamingbuy me this buy me this --mother in tears