Essential

We’ve been going without lately, living a strange, reduced life.

paring knife
cutting away
the excess

 

 

2 Responses

  1. Garry Says:

    Poetry is piths and gists.

  2. Alan Summers Says:

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    Wonderful haibun!

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    Essential

    We’ve been going without lately, living a strange, reduced life.

    paring knife
    cutting away
    the excess

    —JONATHAN ROMAN

    *

    IT’S THE SMALL THINGS . . .

    that count, and I read that they too will die, the unknown and unseen insects who befriend roses, on the window ledges of prisons.
     
     
    mosaic rain:
    the cul de sac
    of shadow
     
    after Sylvia Plath

    Alan Summers
    A "monobun"
    Human/Kind Journal issue 1.6 (June 2019)

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