Appointment

Really chuffed to have heard that my haibun “Appointment “ has been chosen to appear in the “Contemporary Haibun Anthology 17” to be published by Red Moon Press 🤗😁

Appointment

Outside the local hospital. I am sitting in a garden on a bench—the ornamental type, made from a single piece of wood.

I hear a rabbit scurrying around somewhere close. They are tame creatures, providing a comfort in their own unknowing way.

There are roses in the air, early roses perhaps, but unmistakable.

I lick my lips and taste pollen. Sweet, sharp. Not entirely unpleasant.

The fingers of my right hand stroke the texture of the bench’s grain.

The sun burns.

waiting
for the eye clinic
cherry blossom

Derek Ross