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Marjorie Buettner

One More Year

The starlings are swarming overhead circling again and again over my home. The moon, once full, is on the wane. I’m a year older they tell me but I don’t feel it just yet. Only my granddaughter while embracing me repeats: “Grandma I don’t want you to die.”

I tell her with all the seriousness I can muster, nor do I grandchild, nor do I.

collecting shadows
the willow tree
by the lake

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About the Author

Marjorie Buettner has two books of poetry published by Red Dragonfly Press: Seeing it Now (Haiku and Tanka) and Some Measure of Existence (haibun) which won the Haiku Society of America book award. She lives in Chisago City, Minnesota.