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
February 2nd, 2011 at 12:12 pm
I am impressed: a stunning haibun actually!
February 2nd, 2011 at 12:35 pm
Moving, with a distant, ereie quality that does not diminish it's impact.
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 […]
February 2nd, 2011 at 3:00 pm
That's excellent…
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.