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Bryan Rickert

Family Plot

With more than half of my life already spent, I understand better now the idea of a person who has come to accept and even welcome their inevitable death. What surprises me more than anything is my own acceptance and understanding of their death as well. That death does not have to be a robber or an injustice. So after weeks of decline, when the old man tells me he’s tired, I know what he means.

seed planting
I promise to water 
when he’s gone

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About the Author

Bryan Rickert lives in Belleville, Illinois. He is the editor at The Living Senryu Anthology. His first book of haiku, Fish Kite, is available through Cyberwit Publishing.