Pris Campbell

Missteps

He buys me roses for this big calendar flip called my “old person at last” birthday. In my new purple dress and pink fuzzy slippers we share our meal.

He says: Did you try our new thermostat?

I say: no, I don’t know where our cats are at. 

He says: You can drive me nuts sometimes.

I say: I noticed ruts in the street, too.

summer breeze…
birds sing a different song
for him

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About the Author

The haiga, haiku, haibun, free verse, and tanka of Pris Campbell have appeared in numerous print and online journals.  She also has placed or had honorable mention in a number of competitions and published eight books/chapbooks. A former clinical psychologist until sidelined by ME/CFS in 1990, she makes her home with her husband in Southeast Florida