NaPoWriMo 2025 Day 17

It must be haiku day, right? I tried to convince myself it was warm enough to sit outside and folks, I’m here to tell you otherwise!

sitting outside while
The wind scuffs up my coffee
And I shiver

pretending it’s spring
but what happened – me and
my coffee got cold

tree tops swelling
pounding against the sky with
red and gold and green

covered truck goes by
several times a day each way
filled with barking dogs

Photo: regal looking black cat lying on blue tablecloth with one leg extended over the edge of the table. His head, to the right, is turned away from the camera as he considers visitors to the bird feeders outside.  This is Frankie, big man of the house.

Photo: a black cat standing, head to the left of the image, appearing to sniff the floor. The sunlight coming through a paned window to the left out of view, makes a criss-cross pattern on his back and the floor

Photo: a black cat crouches on a windowsill, head toward the center and next to a leafy plant (oxalis). Above, a flat duck and a metal teapot ornament sit on the window's central ledge. Beyond, a bright morning sunlight.

Photo: three cats eating in triangular formation on a wooden floor, with wood wainscoting.  Along the wall are two cats with a beige water dish in-between them. One cat is in the foreground, back to the camera. The holy trinity of black cats.

From the quote box:

I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. The poet’s, the writer’s duty is to write about these things. … The poet’s voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.

— William Faulkner, Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

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