A Discomposed Gnat-Bitten Townie Sulks and Composes an Anti-Haiku in Memory of a Disagreeable Visit to the Atonal English Countryside.

 babbling of birds
the warbling of a brook
then a five-barred thing

The anti-haiku poet’s expression of a gnat horde
composed in a fury of fountain pen ink.

For three haikus perhaps holding a glimmer of promise and presumptuously dedicated to England’s truest nature poet, John Clare, at whose feet I sit, see: https://catherineeisnerfrance.blogspot.com/2017/02/three-haikus-in-homage-to-john-clare.html