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HAIBUN--REFUGE
« Thread Started on Jun 7, 2005, 12:53am »
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The soft sound of mewling makes my eyes widen as I climb the barn stairs, one hand in my dad's, the other on the railing. "You can't touch them," Dad cautions, as we tiptoe toward the source of the sound. Behind a stack of hay bales, there they are, five blind kittens, almost as small as mice. They wriggle, a pile of multi-colored fur--two are black with white faces and paws. I see a marmalade, a gray, and a calico as the knot untangles.

The mother cat jumps down from the bales, rubs against my legs. I am entranced by all this squirming life, and my dad smiles. "You can come back with me in a couple of weeks when their eyes are open," he says. I'm only four years old. Two weeks seems like a lifetime.

summer lightning storm
the old barn--
just a memory
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Re: HAIBUN--REFUGE
« Reply #1 on Feb 9, 2006, 1:57pm »
maggi,

I'm sorry I wasn't here to appreciate this before. It's a lovely snapshot of a memory. I'm inspired by it now, here in 2005. Here's one of mine:

I saw them through the ucalyptus tree branches, my mother, grandmother, and grandfather like short little people trotting up the hill in a panic. They took my brother who had fallen through the branches covered in scrapes and bruises still sniffling and left me hanging high in the treetop to my own ingenuity to try to find a way down.

The story of my life.

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