Haiku 2023–276

relentless summer

eighty degrees, October

will leave soon enough

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Not just eighty, it was eighty-seven degrees Fahrenheit on my way home from work yesterday. While summer has its charms, I much prefer the cooler weather of fall. While the foliage in the area is playing its part, we’ve yet to have that first day where I walk outside and say, “yes, this is fall!!!”