Wednesday, February 17, 2016

From "Calendar of Haiku" by Jane Merchant (1919-1972)

"The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow, but the rainbow won't wait while you do the work." So said Patricia Clafford. Compare the poem below with that quotation from Patricia Clafford.


From CALENDAR OF HAIKU
by Jane Merchant

FEBRUARY

Snow dazzles dull air.
"Work done, I will watch." But now,
Work done, snow has ceased.


Source: Together Magazine (January 1972)

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