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Cloudless sky
A haiku with a quiet reflection
cloudless sky —
he rakes his garden
during a meeting
—
A cloudless sky can make the indoors feel especially confining, even when there is work to be done. Somewhere between voices and agenda items, the garden offers another kind of attention. The rake moves through soil and leaves while the meeting continues, turning an ordinary obligation into something unexpectedly open-air.
There is gentle humour in the divided scene: one part of him listening, another tending the small world at his feet. Perhaps concentration does not always require sitting still beneath a ceiling. Sometimes the rhythm of a simple task gives conversation room to settle. Under that clear sky, work and garden briefly overlap, and the boundaries of the meeting become pleasantly uncertain.
First published on NaHaiWriMo.
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