Haibun Monday – Celebration

abigfatcanofworms Personal Reflection January 4, 2022 1 Minute

We walked into Christmas in the slow way that days do when you’re waiting. By five pm on Christmas Eve I could see the drag on my son’s face. I thought this time thing, it needs a new bus driver. Two weeks of crawl and the long long night-light shadows creeping into the hall from opposite bedrooms and criss-crossing like clock hands.

But once morning hit, we were hurtled… out of the bus. I felt the windscreen scrape my arm and then we were through, rolling rolling down the steep hill beyond, boulstered by immeasurable food and wrapping paper, glimpsing each other through the spinning storm of it.

 flames hug wood in the fire pit
             the family’s scattered around
        we’re sometimes blinded by smoke

Written for Lisa’s dVerse prompt

Published by abigfatcanofworms

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Published January 4, 2022

14 thoughts on “Haibun Monday – Celebration”

Love the haiku, Worms. The snuggles. Great shadow play throughout.

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thanks, K! 🙂

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You have everything in Australia, even caterpillar impersonators. How cool is that! 🤣

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abigfatcanofworms says:

January 4, 2022 at 10:04 pm

🤣 okay. Now you’re drunk. Or at least tell me what coloured pill you took this morning.

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1. Hobbo says:
  
  January 4, 2022 at 10:15 pm
  
  Those budding plants look like caterpillars, or Mrs H has slipped something into my morning cuppa!
  
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2. abigfatcanofworms says:
  
  January 4, 2022 at 10:18 pm
  
  Oh! The picture!! 🤣🤣 Here was I trawling through the writing for signs of caterpillar impersonators. And all along it was that tricksy bracken. Sincere apologies. I really do need my eyes tested.
  
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3. Hobbo says:
  
  January 4, 2022 at 10:21 pm
  
  No need to apologise! It’s my wacky perception.
  
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4. abigfatcanofworms says:
  
  January 4, 2022 at 10:23 pm
  
  Not wacky at all. They do look like caterpillars. I even tried to write a poem about them. It had a line something like “grubs on outriggers”. But I looked in the writing and didn’t see the obvious.
  
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5. Hobbo says:
  
  January 4, 2022 at 10:29 pm
  
  Ah right! Not just me then.🙂
  
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