It’s Poetry Friday! Liz is hosting at her blog Elizabeth Steinglass.(Photo by Johnny Horne at the Fayetteville Observer.)Hungry hawkatop the streetlight:a convenient encroachment.I wrote this haiku after reading several in The Haiku Anthology before I left for work Tuesday. Thanks to recommendations and encouragement from Diane Mayr and an Amazon gift card I found while cleaning (WOOT!), I have added to my collection of books designed to help me improve my craft. Perhaps haiku don’t scare me as much as some other forms because they’re short, though to craft them well takes great effort. The hawk I observed en route …

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