untitled by Leroy Andersen
Kinglet lost,
Her mate is gone
There’s no more music from the song
The dancing ceased
The breathing stopped
After the email server suffered a horrible catastrophic failure.
With so many “Haiku for… ” poems on the Seattle Missed Connections (in the first year of appearance, they were daily) it was easy to overlook, or simply not spot, other poems. Fortunately, this one caught my attention.
