Andrew Riutta

Regret

Recently, I’ve been telling folks that if I could do it all over again … Instead of cutting the dirty ice of its deep scrapes and gouges for 10,000  young hockey players—to the drunken cheers and despairs of their warm, loving parents—I’d probably just be a simple Upper Peninsula, amateur whatever and set up my musty army tent right on the ancient, fissured  granite at the summit of Sugarloaf Mountain (470 ft) where, with my As Seen on TV binoculars and muskrat toupee, I would quietly wait to study  that one star that flickers only once every seventy-five million years.

Or so.

dark-eyed junco. . .
it doesn't even know
its own name

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About the Author

Andrew Riutta was born and raised in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. He is a father, chef, and Zamboni operator. His latest book, Blessed: Modern Haibun on Almost Every Despair (Red Moon Press, 2022), won the Haiku Society of America’s Merit Book Award for Best Haibun Book and was also shortlisted for a Touchstone Distinguished Book Award.

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