gazing at the sky
I know things I shouldn’t know
watching clouds drift by
small cumulous cloud
sitting alone quietly
in the vast blue sky
on my cloud island
I float in the blue ocean
of an endless sky
cumulous clouds know
everything is everything
and life is water
when all the ice melts
and oceans evaporate
we will become clouds
—
Suzanne Tyrpak writes poetry, haibun, flash fiction, and novels. Her haiku has been published by Chautauqua Institution, Kyoto Peace Project, Tricycle Magazine, Yuki Teikei Haiku Society, Trash Panda, The Asahi Shimbun, California Urban Forests Haiku, Eastern Structures, and appears in Seeds from a Birch Tree by Clark Strand.
