EARLIER THIS YEAR ...

from the bus' window
a sea of concrete ...
once green marshlands

I could have been anywhere;  in fact, I was riding the airport bus from New York City to Newark Airport, across the New Jersey Meadowlands.  The Meadowlands, also known as the Hackensack Meadowlands, is a large ecosystem of wetlands in northeast New Jersey.  It is know for being the site of large landfills and decades of environmental abuse.

The haiku was posted on Facebook's NaHaiWriMo page on 1/14/2013.  The prompt was Concrete/bricks/ general building supplies.