Winter Haiku

(dedicated to my Ukranian friend
Oksana White)

The cold wind it howls
in Klamath Falls; it howls, howls
out "PERSEVERANCE"

yesterday it snowed
coating everything; but not
in my apartment

I have many books
cable TV, chronic pain,
also internet

my last love left me
a framed yellow flower that
still hangs on my wall

I was mad for her
last summer: cost me a lot,
was sweet anyway

icicles they hang
pretty, in Scotland Ashland
and in the Ukraine

I am like a bear:
this is not my season but
come Spring, I will roar