the haiku project began as something vague, an elaborate excuse to take a few minutes out of every day to contemplate a single stanza.
and it never had ambitions beyond that.
  the beer and the beat
colliding awkwardly
in fevered dance steps
 
dusk, the hill becomes
constellations of lights
as neighbors come home
   
  shopping bag burden
fatigued mom sits at food court
tabletop empty
 
    three santas on train
curious toddler struggles
to make sense of it
respond, submit