Tourists

The following “Haiku from Index Cards” must be in Belgium, because it’s Tuesday.       +

tourists ignoring

the Emily Carr bronze

             (written 2017, published 2022; see “Silent Totem” rengay)

tourists in sun hats—

the jellyfish

under the pier

             (written 1992, published 1996; see “Spiders” renku)

tourists talking

in several languages—

the glassblower exhales

             (written 2002, published 2003; see “My Poems in Tinywords”)