haiku: green distance

Etch’d against far hills
her lime scarf turns feldgrau:
he stops waving
© Sara Dias
Published: Asahi Haikuist Network, April 30, 2010

An improbable candidate

In the Chicago Tribune an entry about the newly-elected president of the United States reads:
“Barack Obama was elected president on Nov. 4, 2008, becoming the first African-American to claim the highest office in the land, an improbable candidate fulfilling a once-impossible dream.”
Since the hullabaloo about the inauguration of America’s first ‘black’ president, something started gnawing [...]