Our Pitiful Metaphors: haibun

The ancient form of haibun-a prose poem followed by a haiku-is put to versatile use here as description, narrative, dreamscape, memory, conversation, ekphrastic, mini-biography, journal, and journey. and you confuse the memory of one marsh with another and lose an argument about blue spruce or tamarack (it was spruce) and you miss the leaving of the red-winged blackbirds you miss so much these days (it was tamarack)

lake rimmed with gold the sun finds (burns?) a break in the clouds