Bending My Ears

by Michael Dylan Welch and Ray Rasmussen

First published in Haiku Canada Review 11:1, February 2017. Originally written 8 June 2009 while hiking together through Whitemud Ravine in Edmonton, Alberta.

tea party

my daughter insists

that I wear her doll hat Michael

a row of bonnets displayed

at the coal mining museum Ray

rip of the chain saw

an acorn plunks

on the foreman’s hard hat Michael

chill wind

I reach again

for my missing toque Ray

a tasseled sombrero

for the birthday boy Michael

bickering women

the straw hat

bends my ears Ray