After the rains return
After the rains return, and children are backin school, their days circumscribed, filledwith people, vivid with stuff;and they’ve stopped playing
A day of separate parts
A haiku is a form of poem, originally from Japan. It has three lines, with seventeen syllables, in a 5-7-5
For my daughter’s mother-in-law’s sister
For my daughter’s mother-in-law’s sister is a splendid specimen of woman, lady of a certain age, not old enough to
Like a duck to water
You almost didn’t make it, just out of view of the humans who sat, chatting, downing cups of tea, amused