A haiku and two tankas:
1.
Red maple next to
shimmering water flames in
early October.
2.
Red cardinals, black
and white chickadees, brown and
tan sparrows, yellow
gold finches, house finches’ red
heads, eat seeds at my feeder.
3.
Red kidney, black, white
cannelli, tan garbanzos:
beans soak in a pot
like multi-colored pebbles
in the water at the beach.