every night

we fall down a hole where all the other animals live, sometimes deep, sometimes not

what’s down there doesn’t need any explanation

every morning we climb out and try to make sense of it anyway

what’s special about us is that we think we can, and can pass it along to others

in a tent in the rain i become a climate

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Note: “in a tent” previously appeared in after/image (Red Moon Press, 2017)

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About the Author

Jim Kacian is founder and president of The Haiku Foundation as well as chairman of its board; founder and owner of Red Moon Press; and editor in chief of Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years (W. W. Norton, 2013).