Michele Root-Bernstein
Pas de Deux
begin begin begin the freewrite with the view facing south at mid-morning, maybe a week past the autumn equinox
spilling time
through a distance of space, through layered gases, through blue sky and clement weather; through the many leaves on the crimson maple, through the reflection of a desk in the window glass, through louvered blinds
the illumination
on the wall an arms-length away, in myriad bars of shine and shadow circling right, exiting left, crisscrossing the ceiling surface of the eye, leaping along the optic nerve—the stuff that comes to mind
in synapse of star
About the Author
Michele Root-Bernstein devotes herself to haiku, haibun, and haiga. The former book review editor of Modern Haiku, she until recently facilitated the Michigan-based Evergreen Haiku Study Group. Her e-chapbook Wind Rose (Snapshot Press) received a Haiku Society of America Merit Book Award honorable mention in 2020. She won the 2022 Snapshot Press Book Awards for her full-length collection Plainsong.