National Poetry Month: & the Words In-Between...

A few of the poems this month didn't quite fit into Death, Life or Work so those became "the words in-between." Here's one of those poems that didn't quite fit, a history in haiku form...

Family complete.

History Haiku

A winter night

in LA thick with cosmos

and love at first sight.

Moved here for some boy

but I stayed in this city

all because of you.

Single apartment

a futon and a circle

commute. Our courtship.

No-ring proposal

A summer evening wedding

Baseball honeymoon.

We didn’t know how

to be married but were good

at pretending house.

We buried ourselves

in truths and somehow became

perfect together.

First there was the pup

and then a daughter. A bite

and we lost our dog.

Unexpected loss

brings our baby boy to us

family complete.