Haiku for Richard Wright

[Outsider Haiku]

The Outsider read
              summons purple-flowered fields
       contrasting the doom.

Written 11 Feb. 1995
©1995, 2006, 2021 Ralph Dumain

UFO
(Haiku for Richard Wright)

Whirling in the sky,
   the truth is over their heads
      in more ways than one.

(4 August 2011)