More Haiku
by
J. L. Alperin
Poems in haiku style
Chicago Day
No more shirtsleeves
Wind, veiled sun, rattling windows
Bundle up! Winter's back
Fashion model
It is possible
To construct a whole woman
Out of chicken wings
Further Short Poems
Transition
All the old people of my youth are gone
Everyone
But replaced by a new generation of seniors
And I seem to be one of them
Aaaah, spring!
Spring in Chicago is the time
between winter and summer
when winter weather
and summer weather
alternate