Written for:  dVerse Poets Pub - Haibun Monday - Pressure
(posted by Frank J. Tassone

"Today, let’s write a haibun that references pressure, in whatever way you experience or conceive of it."


When I was a child, my mother used a pressure-cooker.
She was the only person to go near it.  Silver knob
at the top rolled side to side.  Steam escaped,
and it whistled.  I waited for it to blow up,
but it never did.

I do not own a pressure-cooker.  It would be yet another
item to add to the pressures I am always under.

     scurries back and forth
     selects the finest twigs
     for new nest in spring

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