A pileated woodpecker seeking insects deep in the trunk of an old sugar maple.

I don't know who wrote this haiku. I copied it down decades ago, into a small notebook I carried for such things, and if there had been an author I would have listed him or her.

The woodpecker

Keeps on in the same place:

Day is closing.

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