Contemporary Haibun Online #cho 19.2 is online and I am delighted to have a small haibun featured – Being Mortal.
Grateful to Peter Newton, Guest Editor for the acceptance & publication.
Being Mortal
My 6-year-old grandson says “Daadi,* I will marry at 21. How old will you be then?”
“81” I reply, looking through my spectacles at his bright eyes.
“Will you be alive?”
“Well, that’s a tough question to answer, for no one knows when the call comes.”
“Who calls us Daadi—is it God?”
“Probably,” a trifle unsure, I respond.
“I wish I were God” he smiles.
young bamboo
my hand reaches
to touch the green
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