Chartreuse Mood

Still there
    chartreuse tennis ball
          on the fire escape

Soaking up moonlight
    on the fire escape
        chartreuse tennis ball

On the fire escape
    chartreuse tennis ball
         not there

 Poetry Society Of Virginia, “J. Franklin Dew Award” Second Prize Winner for a “Series of three or four haiku on a single theme,” 1990; “Soaking up moonlight” was also published in Hummingbird, 1993