the grass blade’s slow sag
at ant’s leisurely crossing
thus goes sun’s day
our little one sleeps—
whispers, tiptoes, hush the cat
moonlight’s goodnight kiss
welcoming the sun
a million dust motes turn up
cloud whisks them away
Darrell Petska is a retired communications editor, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Journals that have published his poetry include Red Alder Review, Modern Haiku, Chrysanthemum, Shamrock Haiku Journal, Failed Haiku–Journal of English Senryu, and many others (see conservancies.wordpress.com). Forty years a father (eight years a grandfather), and longer as a husband, Darrell lives outside Madison, Wisconsin.
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