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Saturday, January 14, 2017

Selected Haibun: Just A Day

November sky
framed by the basement window
thoughts of home

The ceiling still water stained. A pile of poetry books on the desk. None with my name on it. Yet my life harms no one -- no wife... no pets.

Today, on my forty eighth birthday,  no one calls.

Haibun Today, 5:4, December 2011