Deborah Fleming: Ohio Autumn

Cacophonous flock
above harvest field
spreading their sky-net

sideways falls and soars
medusoid in the pulsing
light of afternoon

under bundled clouds
neither to feed nor mate
before migration.

Published 2010. Almost, if not technically, a triple haiku: the less-is-more principle brought off to perfection, as the departing flock soars away from the hint of anthropomorphism in the last stanza.