Completing the Chore: a .@ImageCurve #haibun

kitchen in early moring with the sun filtering in

The dishwasher hums, and the whooshing of its water drowns out the crickets. I eat my oatmeal out of Frankie’s Frosted Flakes bowl: not another clean one remains.

warm aftertaste
empty pill containers
beside bottles

first published in Image Curve, May 14, 2020

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9 responses to “Completing the Chore: a .@ImageCurve #haibun”

hank77

May 28, 2020

kaykuala

Healthy living with a healthy diet. Oatmeal is a must!

Hank

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rothpoetry

May 28, 2020

I hope this does not imply you are sick at your house?? The Warm after taste dose not sound to appetizing!

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Grace

May 28, 2020

I like the sounds here, humming and crickets. That empty pill containers hint anxiety.

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Glenn A. Buttkus

May 28, 2020

A tidy anxious brief haibun with a great senryu capper. I fear we shall all need to think 10 months ahead considering “completing the chore”.

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msjadeli

May 28, 2020

The crickets are very early this year.

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Frank Hubeny

May 29, 2020

We only have a few dishes and the dishwasher broke down. I am glad it did. I now wash them by hand.

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Björn Rudberg (brudberg)

May 29, 2020

This seems like a life in depressing isolation… at least the dishes get done… stay clear of the bottles.

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rogblog666

May 29, 2020

this gives me some deep dark foreboding. hope it is not from a bad place. thanks for sharing.

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Reena Saxena

May 31, 2020

Empty pill containers …..gives a foreboding sense of doom.

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