Hometown

by Stephen Toft and Michael Dylan Welch


First published in Wales Haiku Journal, March 2020. Originally written in January 2020.



dark afternoon

a waitress

folds napkins Stephen


soup spoons

clinking in the sink Michael


the busboy

flicks his cigarette

towards the stars Stephen


no tip

from the fat cat

in the Cadillac Michael


a vagrant stops

to smell the coffee Stephen


silent snowfall—

the OPEN neon

blinks off Michael