Pages

by Michael Dylan Welch, Carmen Sterba, Bob Redmond, R. J. Swanson, Angela Terry, and Michelle Schaefer

First published in Raining Rengay #5, April 2025. Originally written 9 June 2018 at Brightwater Center in Woodinville, Washington, at the annual regional haiku meeting of the Haiku Society of America.

back to mindfulness . . .

the bookstore cat

finds my shin Michael Dylan Welch

the bookish librarian

dusts every day Carmen Sterba

under the head

of a sleeping hobo—

the complete Shakespeare Bob Redmond

on the first edition’s cover

a coffee ring R. J. Swanson

the page marked

with a post-it note

Catch 22 Angela Terry

on her Kindle Fire

she flips a virtual page Michelle Schaefer