picnic for one

in the autumn forest
white hair aglow
a wild lettuce seed
drifts past

Mountain stream: haiku or tanka?

mountain stream talking to myself

POSTED sign
of a bear
I stay out
with fewer words

I take a look at myself:
so much more
than that rail-thin kid
who loved the blues

millipede on the green
bathroom wall
waves passing through
its carpet of feet

with its commitments
living stump