the slow sinking
of the wishing coin
summer’s end

 

 

4 Responses

  1. Andrea Says:

    Lovely…

  2. Nancy Rapp Says:

    Love this!

  3. Bob Redmond Says:

    Inevitable and yet we wish summer could linger… your haiku captures it all, very nice!

  4. Alan Summers Says:

    the slow sinking
    of the wishing coin
    summer’s end

    —Marjorie Buettner

    The consonance of the s-letter makes me hear a swish of someone's clothing as they throw a coin, and are now perhaps circling the fountain, or sat down on its lip, and their outfit is rustling as they lean ever forward to track its downward trajectory into a summer drowsy torpor below the surface.

    Alan

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