if i turn my back
you will see there are no bones
and my head is grey
... and occasional Tanka... and Haibun. Started after a competition on the unbound.co.uk blog (see #1 and #2). Mostly actually senryu , I think. This year attempting to publish a Haiku every day - 365 Haiku a Day. For good or for ill, I always aim to stick rigidly to a 5-7-5 structure - forgive me if I have counted the syllables wrong, often they are how I have said, or thought, them in my head rather than their official number.
I noticed it as soon as I sat down. A light at the back of the screen was reflecting off the inside of my glasses right into my eye. As I turned to look up at the light to see where it was coming from I saw someone sat across the aisle. When I looked again no one was there.
I shook the thought from my head, but the light kept shining and I kept getting the feeling that there was someone there. I could have sworn, just out of the corner of my eye, I could see them. Facing forwards, waiting. Yet every time I turned to check, there was no one there.
I turned to my wife and asked if we could move up a few seats.
the light behind me
the person that wasn't there
before the horror