From the collection published in 2021, The Immediate and No Sooner.
Haiku 813
2/21/20
they were good people
flat broke but ever hopeful
always faltering
Haiku 814
2/21/20
and I never told
a story that didn’t fit
the scattered fragments
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Claudia McGill Writes Poetry, Did You Know That? 
I think I’ve met the people in the first one, and I’m intrigued by the second one. I like the sound of scattered fragments.
The first one, I had certain people in mind, this is exactly their profile. Some people and money just don’t mix well. And the second one, I too like the idea of scattere fragments, pulling them back together, or letting them dissipate or just using some of them and ignoring the ones that flew off in the wind?
Yes, I like that idea, too.
I feel like the second one really carries echoes of your approach to some of your poetry and art work.
Hmmm, that is interesting. And I think flattering. Because to gather the fragments, discard those that don’t fit, let the ones go that are not important or meaningful, that is defininitely more my way of working. I do not see a whole but the pieces and I work my way through them, that I do know.