Elizabeth Crocket

Seeing Things Differently

I ask the doctor and physiotherapist if I will walk again and am relieved when they answer yes, in unison. They explain the limitation of my permanent leg disability. When the physiotherapist gets me up to walk with the aid of a walker, I wonder if she realizes it is the most brutal physical challenge of my life. Seeing her do a double-take when I ask if I can go further, I realize she might. Though my father died earlier in the year, I imagine his hand on my back.

artificial eye
dad's vision only hampered
by others

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About the Author

Canadian poet and author Elizabeth Crocket has been writing various forms of Japanese short form poetry since 2007. She has had two books shortlisted for the Touchstone Distinguished Book Award, had three online haiga galleries featured by the Haiku Foundation, and exhibited sixteen photo-haiga in corridor gallery exhibition, “Just a Moment,” at the Oakville Community Centre.

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