Looking East

by John K. Kruschke

Looking east before sunrise I like to

see the slender crescent moon (sky haiku

so abbreviated it is only

an opening parenthesis, holy

punctuation setting aside last night’s

constellations, planets, and satellites

as mere afterthoughts like the Milky Way,

which justify staying living for today).

From The Orchards Poetry Journal, Winter 2024, p. 115 (see PDF).