Forgotten

by Michael Dylan Welch and Garry Gay

First published in Sound of a Leaf, the 2018 Seabeck Haiku Getaway anthology (Bellevue, Washington: Haiku Northwest Press, 2020), page 63. Originally written on 26 October 2018 at the Meeting House at the Seabeck Conference Center in Seabeck, Washington. +

estate sale—

the remains of a silverfish

in the insect book Michael

on the unswept walkway

dew-covered caterpillar Garry

vacant lot—

a dozen grasshoppers

ticking in a jar Michael

termite dust

under the back step

rusted nail heads Garry

a nest of bees

in the broken mailbox Michael

forgotten swing set

two fireflies

chase each other Garry