What Season is This?

A poem in Haibun form (described following the poem) about strange autumn weather

November arrived
at seventy Fahrenheit
in Massachusetts.

“This is not normal,” I said to my wife.
I guess this is true global warming.
The squirrels will stop gathering nuts for their homes,
and mosquitoes will once more be swarming.

I put the storm windows up two weeks ago,
and gassed up the snow blower, too.
Yet we might cook the Thanksgiving turkey this year
outside, for a fall barbeque.

On the other hand, I won't be surprised
if the temperature drops overnight.
So let's not be hasty, lest we find ourselves
with chattering teeth and frostbite.


Haibun - a combination of short prose or prose poem (20-150 words) and a haiku (3 lines of 5, 7, & 5 syllables respectively. (The haiku can be before or after the poem.)