Saturday, July 27, 2019

Haibun


                              HOLDING                            


An old man, wearing a Yankee baseball cap, sits reading a newspaper. His face is tanned and cross-hatched with wrinkles like a well used leather glove. I can't begin to guess his age. He could be older than I or younger. 

drought cracked field
a dandelion root
holds on

Cattails

2 comments:

Magyar said...

Deep smiles Adelaide_!
__ My imagination sees, and likes this as a parallel to that worn and wrinkled newspaper, and that tanned and leather toned face, is the game's glove. _m

in my game
I turn to a wrinkled page
ninth inning

Adelaide said...

Thanks for your haiku, Magyar. The only game we can play is guessing who will win.

adelaide

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