From Jack Hohenstein, Frankford’s resident Haiku master. The captions are my own.
For the Phillies on the home stretch
3 to 6 to 1
Masterpiece of time and grace,
Baseball at its best
Jim Ryan and the Friends of Pennypack
Quiet Pennypack
Flows gently through shade and sun…
Distant football sounds
The boardwalk
Squawking gull goes off
Like a two-noted rooster
Claiming the morning.
Time to head south.
Birds, thousands of birds
Darkening Avalon’s skies
On the long way south
Life is brief.
In time, the leaf falls
And the tree remembers it
For a little while.
From One Temperature by Jack Hohenstein. Copyright 2005 Jack Hohenstein, Published by Full Court Press, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
There are copies of Jack’s book available at the Free Library branch in Frankford.
