Lake Harriet is a beautiful city lake located a few miles from downtown Minneapolis. It teems with life all four seasons and it just may be the perfect setting for a 3-mile walk. Haikus Around Harriet is a series of Haikus, each of which is a snippet of conversation – and life – as strangers cross paths. (Hint: The footnotes, located just south of the poem, is my lame attempt to explain the physics of walking, talking and eavesdropping.)