Summer Haiku Quintet

1.

hungry hummingbirds
hover over hollyhocks
sipping sweet nectar

2.

last year’s spider web
dangles from a window sill
snaring victims still

3.

a large cutthroat trout
swims rapidly down the creek
past the baited hook

4.

picnic invaded!
the smell of burgers sizzling
summons swarms of flies

5.

fireflies in flight
beacons of luminescence
this dark summer night

Floyd D. Anderson lives in Brockport, New York, and can be reached at floydsroom@hotmail.com. Read other articles by Floyd D..