Boy Montage

Picking up a stick
   the little boy is master
      of the country road.

Declaring a truce
     he slurps from his water gun
          to cool himself.

Running to the bus
     bathing soup wrapped in towel
         jelly-roll style.

Speeding past his friends
    dry leaves clinging to sweater --
       boy on bicycle.

Intrigued too long
   little boy staring at shell
     of capsized turtle.

Modern Haiku, 1970; “Declaring a truce” was also published in Tinywords, 2014