Haiku

childhood sight

– a large fish flashes in a stream –

when the world was rich

 *  *  *

called out of class

for speech lessons:

I had a lazy tongue

 *  *  *

I stuttered and lisped

reading “wasps’ nest”: they let me

leave a gap in sound

 *  *  *

I glance upward

without wandering outside:

deadlines at moonrise

 - Brian Walter