3 haiku

by William Ann Warren

I draw your outline

in the angled autumn light

still you do not come

dog and doe touch noses

autumn lights the budding truce 

dread of winter joins them

we drag the slain beast

into the ring of firelight

feast on its wild fear

Note: Each haiku is intended to be read individually; this is not a sequence.

William Ann Warren is a recovering Midwestern English/Creative Writing major finding his way back to collecting words as they fall. He writes poetry and fiction from the middle of the Mojave Desert in the environmentally challenged city of Las Vegas.