One of the artists behind Mobile Haiku fond some inspiration while traveling through Bakersfield, burping out two posts that capture the weather and economy of our fair town.

The blog's tagline is "Seventeen syllables / is all you can cram into / such a tiny screen," a nod to what Webster's defines as "a major form of Japanese verse, written in 17 syllables divided into 3 lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables, and employing highly evocative allusions and comparisons, often on the subject of nature or one of the seasons."

Here are two posts from "levinebar" titled simply "Bakersfield" and "Bakersfield II":

"Bakersfield"

South of Cajon pass
I emerge into daylight
 as if waking up

Question: "Cajon" is not really close to Bakersfield. Maybe should be "Tejon"?

"Bakersfield II"

Dimly, through the murk
nodding donkeys slurp up crude
 must be Bakersfield

Not a bad visual description.

Finally, not sure if a subsequent post titled "damnation" was inspired by Kern or not, but it's an indictment on our desire to make green things that are not:

"damnation"
Dante keeps a place
 for those who carve golf courses
 out of the desert

Bakosphere knows that is probably a dangerous question, but do you have any refreshing haiku to share?