Karen Robbie
Last Chance
He’s in his chair. So very thin and quiet. Only his eyes speak. His carer comes in. She’s big and loud and bossy and he perks up. He likes her and does as he’s told. He likes to please, feel her smile. Yesterday, he went out for a walk without telling anyone. She caught him. That was the first time I saw him look so young, almost like a little boy.
autumn sunlight fills the buttercup
About the Author
Karen Robbie’s haiku and haibun have appeared in Blithe Spirit, cho, Hedgerow, Presence,The Haibun Journal, and The Heron’s Nest, among others, as well as in The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku. She is a long-standing Zen practitioner and lives in Ceredigion, Wales, with her husband.