Friday Haiku

Tea and a shoe brush
Bought without intervention
Of any human.

I bought tea and a shoe brush at one of those automated checkouts. One of the staff had to help me. Still, they didn't intervene in the actual transaction and I count that a victory—I was going to say 'of me over the 21st century' but if I've adapted to the new technology, even with help, who has really won?

this weed
covered with aphids
and ladybugs

-- Sue Burke

breathing
a little deeper
wild roses


               -- Ann K. Schwader

Formatting hard drives.
When that partition is gone
Spinning emptiness.

Yes, it's come to this. My sister's machine has just about had it.

spring wind
the robin’s song brightens

sudden chill
the first sounds of rain
in the trees

May morning
a fox goes its way
I go mine

                 -- Ann K. Schwader

Autumn quandary:
It is too cold to get up
Yet there's this to write.

A life of leisure can make you terribly self-indulgent.