A Gentle Rhythm

27•July•2024, Haiku & Senryu for Healing. Dedicated to the Memory of “Magus” Gustav Sallas.

my old teakwood bones
creak and i settle, weary
sagging into my 
weather-worn frame,
but i can still remember
the lilt of voices
singing in rhythm
a silly ditty in time
to the oar’s motion
as they cut the glass
surface of the lake’s serene
waters beneath me 

Art by Tala Lillie

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