Changes ( haiku)
Sugar maple leaves
Are falling orange against black
Monarchs heading south.
(Linda & Bob Coughlin)
Haiku for Jake-the-Beagle
Snowy mud on boots
I dig your grave, poor dog,
And think of my own.
(Bob Coughlin
October 24, 2006)
October in Willoughby, 1958
the two sugar maples
glisten in the crisp pure sunlight
efflorescence of yellow, orange, red
against the cloudless blue sky:
Hayes Avenue looks like heaven
Grampa rakes the leaves into a grand pile:
Denny, Mary Ellen, Bobby play king of the hill,
somersault, stuff leaves into flannel shirts
the radio is omnipresent
blaring out the Browns struggle against the Giants,
Jimmy Brown against Sam Huff
Grampa lights the pile of leaves,
a fragrance that will linger in memory
until death
Gramma calls out for dinner:
roast beef, mashed potatoes, green peas
again
(Bob Coughlin
October 18, 1991)
Sugar maple leaves
Are falling orange against black
Monarchs heading south.
(Linda & Bob Coughlin)
Haiku for Jake-the-Beagle
Snowy mud on boots
I dig your grave, poor dog,
And think of my own.
(Bob Coughlin
October 24, 2006)
October in Willoughby, 1958
the two sugar maples
glisten in the crisp pure sunlight
efflorescence of yellow, orange, red
against the cloudless blue sky:
Hayes Avenue looks like heaven
Grampa rakes the leaves into a grand pile:
Denny, Mary Ellen, Bobby play king of the hill,
somersault, stuff leaves into flannel shirts
the radio is omnipresent
blaring out the Browns struggle against the Giants,
Jimmy Brown against Sam Huff
Grampa lights the pile of leaves,
a fragrance that will linger in memory
until death
Gramma calls out for dinner:
roast beef, mashed potatoes, green peas
again
(Bob Coughlin
October 18, 1991)
Photo above shows Carolan on the Yellowstone or Missouri River in Montana in the Fall of 2007.
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