Haiku 2023–255

September cornfield

withering from green to brown

for one last chapter

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Driving home from work yesterday, I first noticed the “beginning of the end” for a cornfield I pass every day. The solid wall of dark green yielded to different colors with yellow and light brown now present with a lighter shade of green. As the plants begins to dry out the leaves become spindly and draw inwards revealing the rows behind. In a few weeks, not a single speck of green will exist in what used verdant acre after verdant acre. Once that happens, the combines will enter the fields for harvest bringing another year of growing to a close.