by Michael Dylan Welch, Alice Frampton, and Connie Donleycott
Honorable mention in the 2008 Haiku Poets of Northern California rengay contest. First published in Mariposa #20, Spring–Summer 2009. Written on 11 July 2008 on the patio at the Olive Garden restaurant in Silverdale, Washington. See also “Breadsticks.”
my son’s baseball cap
on backwards—
daylight saving time Michael
a grey fedora
floats downriver Alice
lowering the visor
on the bike helmet
female cop Connie
the line cook’s hairnet
almost falls into the soup Michael
after midnight
I find the toque
on the snowman Alice
the elastic breaks
on my birthday hat Connie