My haibun, “A Walk to Remember,” now appears in Haibun Today 13:1 (March 2019).
A Walk to Remember
You, Opossum, are slinking along the edges of the building in the faint light of morning. Aren’t you nocturnal? Shouldn’t you be deep in a hole, sleeping? You’re so sly, pausing behind a spider plant when you notice me noticing you. You grow impatient, then bold, and finally sprint across the path to the next building. Is it the smell of frying bacon that makes you scuttle off that way, I wonder?
I continue my walk, turn a corner, and see the full moon framed perfectly between the dark, green leaves and the luminescent, purple clusters of bougainvillea blossoms.
the face of the moon
my mother’s face over
the baby’s cradle
jb
Amber Ridge, La Verne, CA
