Yesterday and Wednesday I was in Knoxville with my boss doing field adjustments to a three mile long stretch of road with 15 traffic signals, and our new timing plan reduced the driving time (round trip from one end to the other and back) from 20 minutes to 15 minutes! I was excited.
Anyhow, during a brief mid-morning break while my boss was on the phone I wrote a couple traffic-haiku poems--why not? I didn't have a book easily accessible, but had a laptop computer we were using to analyse the traffic patterns. The poems are presented below.
trucks, cars and buses
cruise on asphalt and concrete:
solid urban streets
yellow, red, waiting:
time flows, patience grows, and then
acceleration
One of my co-workers, after seeing the two haiku, emailed the following haiku to me:
joel fredrick swanson
spare time in knoxville thursday
making up haikus