Black Dog

“You know”, he confided, “I want to walk in front of a truck. My little girls would be much better off. I am the reject of the family. My wife tells lies. I tell lies to cover up my illness, to avoid the shame.”

Christmas day
gifts of all colours
and shapes

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Issue 11.1 | 2 February 2011

5 Responses

  1. @andreochka Says:
    February 2nd, 2011 at 12:12 pm

    I am impressed: a stunning haibun actually!

  2. Dirk van Nouhuys Says:
    February 2nd, 2011 at 12:35 pm

    Moving, with a distant, ereie quality that does not diminish it's impact.

  3. Gifts of All Colors (Or, what’s a haibun?) | elephant journal Says:
    February 2nd, 2011 at 12:53 pm

    […] how this haibun begins. What’s a haibun? It’s a combination of a haiku and prose. Tinywords is a website that will send you a new haiku, or in today’s case, a haibun […]

  4. John Stone Says:
    February 2nd, 2011 at 3:00 pm

    That's excellent…

  5. bett Says:
    February 5th, 2011 at 10:27 pm

    Thank you John, Dirk and @andreochka for your high praise of my haibun. I am still a novice but I am enjoying my Japnese form poetry journey.

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