HAIBUN: Blue and Yellow

Blue and Yellow

Two brothers poking through rubble
find a singed doll with a severed leg.
The older boy locates a rag and twists
a little tourniquet on the plastic stump.
This is what you’ll do next time.

.....sunflower field
.....the sour scent of smoke
.....in the rain

 haikuKATHA #19, May 2023