White Petals
Announcement: My new book, ANCIENT HISTORY, haibun and tanka prose , is available on cyberwit.com and Amazon
Saturday, March 22, 2025
Monday, March 10, 2025
Sunday, March 2, 2025
Haibun
BACK STORY
missing you
I warm the bed
with a hot brick
There is a memorial service and I receive your ashes.
I listen to your troubled breathing until it stops.
You call me bitch for putting you in a nursing home.
Your condition is worsening, and you need a wheel chair.
Cognition is going, your body is weakening, moods are erratic.
We know something is wrong even before the diagnosis.
clocks jump ahead
a date on the calendar
I fail to see
Frogpond
Sunday, February 23, 2025
Tanka
Sunday, February 16, 2025
Saturday, February 8, 2025
Thursday, January 30, 2025
Tanka
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Haibun
A New Day
The day is cool, but not uncomfortable. Sunny and cloudless. Trees, brightly dressed in shades of red, orange, yellow. Light breezes send leaves spiraling to the ground. Nothing on my must do list, no doctor’s appointments, no bills to pay, no shopping to do.
meandering
all my senses
out for a walk
Presence