Friday, November 13, 2009

Haibun - Wave

Wave

"I want to be a wave" I had said, pierced
by the pain of adult laughter.

How the ache of ridicule remains.
I sit on the jetty as naked as the hurt child
I had been.

Hot, salty tears stream on my face, cooled
by the spray off the Atlantic.

turning
over and over -
I wave