Houstonist Haikus

An urban swampland:
Bayous, rice fields, and floodplains
Paved over and built.

Water moccasins
make do with drainage ditches,
Corrugated banks.

Huge frickin roaches
flutter 'bout sodium lights,
New haunts for mating.

Outside my window,
These old tenants observe me,
Watch me watch telly.

Worryingly large
Stinkbugs grace the window screen,
Bask in houselight glow.

One night, a possum
ambled across the lawn (lost?)
Like some big, weird cat.

I crouched, tapped on glass
till I got its attention.
It approached, stopped, sniffed.

We faced nose to nose,
Astonished at our meeting
there in our own homes.

Photo: flickr user onanie