Twilight of Life: As Winter Corn

Richard Childs
Haiku Hub
Published in
1 min readJul 17, 2017
Study of the dignity of aging | Adolph Von Menzel

as winter corn stalks

- flesh blanched, parched; cropped

hair drained, lifeless

Inspired by S Lynn Knight Haiku This! prompt Twilight.

Also inspired by Dennett’s Twilight poem line “As day softens.”

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Richard Childs
Haiku Hub

facilitator @home in wilds/arts/business/17thC haiku’s, Indigenous/feminist ally