seven crows
in their unthinking row
a vigil

six cars
hunched in the cold
their steady exhalations

five douglas firs
emerge from fog
climbing the hillside

four chairs
in cafe courtyard
around absent table

three apples
still on the tree
windless day

“Riverwise Madrone”
by Karel K. Hendee

On day 880, I realized that the haiku I wrote on day 876 could have made a good beginning for another of my haiku sequences. (A series of haiku, each of which begins with the last line of of the previous haiku, with the last line of the last haiku echoing the first line of the first.) So even though there was now a four day gap, I went ahead and resumed the sequence on day 880. Then, when I got to the end of that sequence, I felt like there was more I could do with those first/last lines, and so I did a second sequence!
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two hawks
inscribing
a single circle

a clear sky
the day open
to any gift