
Four Wildlife Haiku
By: Jim Bates

Hungry woodpecker
Tap-taping around the tree
Prelude to a meal.
Frosty morning dawn
Chipmunk burrows under leaves
Warmth fleetingly felt.
Geese flying honking
Swallows amass on taut wires
Sense of change coming.
Hot September day
Dry grass crinkling underfoot
Thirtsy squirrel pants.