dagosan's haiku diary: September 2009

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

first day of fall
pumpkin pie
from scratch

. . . from f/k/a (September 21, 2005); click for Autumn Equinox Haiku by f/k/a's Honored Guest Poets . . .

- an annual tradition: fretting over indoor crickets -

autumn equinox –
awakening
to summer’s last cricket

. . . Nisqually Delta Review (summer/fall issue 2006; Editor’s Choice)

breakfast alone
except for that cricket
behind the fridge

.. The Heron’s Nest (Vol. X, No. 4, December 2008)

from the shower
a sad love song -
bathtub cricket

clearing out
spider webs –
again, I spare the cricket

something I said?
the cricket’s
gone, too

bathtub cricket,
where do you go
while I shower?

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . previously seen at f/k/a (2005 - 2008)

p.s. "Frasier" used a gecko to take care of his
cricket problem. Roberta Beary consulted the
Washington Post's John Kelly and suggests duct tape.
Click to visualize the cricket lifecycle, and for a
printer-friendly cricket to color. To learn about
the cricket song and its mythology, head to an
informative piece at Wikipedia.

first cold night
another noisy cricket
behind the fridge

unofficial
end of summer --
the widow wears white anyway

photo: Arthur Giacalone