- Autumn Haiku
Cliff Notes version: Theblack locust’s gold upstagessummer’s green machine.
Night’s gambit: the moon--a blood orange, hovering;a gauntlet thrown down.
Late-October windrattles the turkey oak’s dryboughs: a smoker’s cough. [End Page 119]
Bill Christophersen’s poems have recently appeared in Antioch Review, Borderlands, Hanging Loose, Potomac Review, Rattle, Rhino, and Sierra Nevada Review. He lives in New York City and plays traditional and bluegrass fiddle.