Change of Weather
First published in Between Sun and Shadow: The Yuki Teikei Haiku Society Members’ Anthology 2023, San Jose, California: Yuki Teikei Haiku Society, 2023, page 71. One of three short haibun originally written in April 2023, in the week after my mother died.
Before my mother’s body was collected from hospice, a nurse bagged up the wedding ring, a ring that Mum had never taken off, even after my dad died, for 66 years.
overcast sky—
the rain
that does not fall