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Michele Root-Bernstein

Picture Hat Circa 1924

. . . it’s the view from the side, don’t you see. we’re thinking she’s the maternal grandmother we never knew, never heard a word of, she died so young, but honestly? the nose. the slim torso. the capably large hands. the dramatic stare into the distance.  it’s my sister in a low-waisted dress she never wore, on a street in a town she never walked, in a time she never was. not really.

sepia tones
an echo
of the unfinished sound

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Michele Root-Bernstein devotes herself to haiku, haibun and haiga. She is currently book editor of Modern Haiku and facilitator of Evergreen Haiku in mid-Michigan.