Last autumn, I invited a small group to join me in writing haiku that celebrate the season. The resulting poems ranged from funny, macabre,nostalgic and sweet. All of them were fabulous. After taking a few seasons off, a friend has prodded me into restarting the Sort-of-Seasonal Haiku Free-for-All. So, I invite you to string together a mere seventeen syllables and join us in sending out summer with style. You need not spend your whole weekend laboring over this. Haikus are fun and easy to write. Once you get started though, it may be hard to stop. We're using the most common haiku form in this exercise. Seventeen syllables written in three lines divided into 5-7-5. Try to use a seasonal reference. Punctuation is not necessary. (For the more advanced word nerds there are more complex rules.) Submit a haiku by 9/7/04 to roxydynamite@yahoo.com or in the comment section below. The results will be posted.