Michele Root-Bernstein

Homage to Last Chances

You know how the severed arm of an octopus keeps trying to feed a phantom mouth? How the cut bud, if not too alarmed, blossoms forth into peony?

not so empty
as ready for
the oarless boat

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About the Author

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.