Waiting in this little dirt-packed parking lot for a post-op friend I’m picking up and he’s late. An acorn’s tiny accident tings the car. In the oaks woodpeckers hector their order, heads capped with red, fans of the sun, rooting for food. A distant saw’s pen-intent: I slice time, stack words for your incendiary sight, tindery heart. My friend is elsewhere, like you.
cataracts
ruins
of light
is a certified health coach, the author of 16 self-help health books that have
sold three million copies and have been translated into 10 languages, and the former
editor-in-chief of Rodale Books. His haibun have appeared in Modern Haiku,
Contemporary Haibun Online, Haibun Today, Frogpond, cattails, and
tinywords.
http://billgottliebhealth.com
