In purple darkness <br />sails like scalloped leather flap: <br />bats umbrella wings. <br /> <br />Sulphur stars orbit <br />above a green and white globe: <br />fireflies at cabbage. <br /> <br />Dusty Miller leaves <br />dip and quiver launching nets: <br />cricket trampolines.<br /><br />William F Dougherty<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/three-more-haiku/