Haiku, Nov ‘23 (first half)

11/1
Out with the mouth guard.
In with the flipper. If you
don’t know, you’re lucky.

11/2
Silver-haired driver.
“Now see here, Dumbledore!” Ha!
Not Robert Burns then.

Another one:

Catalpa leaves float
and sway on their way from sky
perch to rusty ground.

Birmingham

11/3
Today’s tough topics:
reparations, guilt, fear, shame.
And don’t forget: love.

11/4
A doom loop. App shows
one booking, then the other.
Never together.

11/5
There are those who love
the time change, even stay up
to watch it happen.

https://videos.files.wordpress.com/lpgJpKSd/img_9464.mp4

11/6
His name was Moses
and he called me ma’am.
Not in Boston now!

11/7
The actual bus
where Rosa Parks sat, displayed
in Montgomery.

11/8
For walking past a
house where a white woman bathed
they strung him up. Dead.

11/9
Storefronts boarded up
with plywood. Abandoned gas
stations. Weeds. Selma.

11/11

If the Black Bayou
could talk, what would it say? “Oh
sleep, sweet Emmett, sleep.”

Tallahatchie River
Cotton gin fan like the one the killers tied around Emmett Till’s neck. It weighs 70 pounds. They never expected his body to be found.
Miss Jesse Jane Demings
Refurbished Sumner courtroom where killers were acquitted in 67 minutes