two haiku for today

Tom wrote this one today, not based on actual experience, thankfully:

The cold machine stares blankly-
programs lost not saved-
The blue screen of death returns.

And this was yesterday's, by me:

caterpillar slow,
freight train rounds the corner--miles
and miles of coal cars

and one poem by Thomas Merton

One bird sits still
Watching the work of God:
One turning leaf,
Two falling blossoms,
Ten circles upon the pond.