Keith Polette
Scenic Byway
In the long-slanted light of a January afternoon, three dark-feathered ducks are waddling on the thin ice of the river, leaving long shadows in their wake, until one slips and falls in. Without looking back, the other two continue, without comment, into the length of the day.
mid-winter
the black bear slipping
into deeper sleep
Bio
Keith Polette is the author of Pilgrimage, a book of haibun, and The New World, a book of haiku.