Robert Erlandson
I’m an accident
You see I’m not supposed to be here.
Sometime in junior high school, I figured out that my parents were a lot older than the parents of all my friends and cousins. This realization played on me and I couldn’t let it go. So, one evening at dinner I blurted out; “Did you want to have me? Was I planned?”
My mother put down her fork, looked at dad, who was putting down his fork and looking at her. Mom stood up and said: “We love you anyway!”
retirement the laughter of grandchildren
About the Author
Robert Erlandson has published his haiku, tanka and haiga in Haigaonline, Daily Haiga, Cattails, Ribbons, and Prune Juice. He has also published AWE, a chapbook of poetry and images speaking to the incredible relationships between nature, art, and mathematics. See more on his website, https://www.circlepublications.net/.