So we were leaving the Dashiell Hammett apartment building, going out the back door by the trash room because we had some trash to drop off.
I shut the door and my index finger got jammed between the door and this brass guard intended to prevent someone from jimmying the latch. And when I say jammed, I mean pinned. The straight edge of the brass guard was cutting into my finger.
Worse yet, the door locked upon closing and it was a long couple of moments while my wife desperately tried to find the right key to open the door and liberate me.
We washed and wrapped up my gushing finger before strolling three blocks to the nearest ER, which was mercifully empty for a Saturday night. (It was barely 5:30 pm, so…)
Three stitches later, I knew I wouldn’t be writing any haiku postcards for a few days. That was November 18, but less than a week later I wrote the haiku onto postcards and made a video.
That’s it! See you next week.
Before I forget: here are the fourteen haiku I wrote those two weeks, and where they were sent to.
haiku 20231113 » San Diego, CA USA
facebook memory
snow
this time last year
haiku 20231114 » Washington, DC USA
nob hill night
a cable car pauses
then rumbles on
haiku 20231115 » Colorado Springs, CO USA
kitchen window
a crows delivers
the morning bulletin
haiku 20231116 » Panchkula, Haryana, India
museum nude
an urge to bring flowers
on my next visit
haiku 20231117 » Allendale, NJ USA
san francisco rain
bells toll from
an unseen church
haiku 20231118 » Fresno, CA USA
huntington park
morning tai chi
and happy dogs
haiku 20231119 » Seattle, WA USA
ER nurse
takes my vitals and leaves --
stupid stupid me
haiku 20231120 » Whitewater, KS USA
my neighbor's aspens
showing off their new gold --
what klimt said
haiku 20231121 » Cincinnati, OH USA
hey mr. lizard
darting among the stones
winter is coming
haiku 20231122 » Washington, DC USA
the morning is bright
and the coffee ready
don't mention the war
haiku 20231123 » South Beach, OR USA
thanksgiving hike
newly fallen pine needles
muffle every step
haiku 20231124 » Tacoma, WA USA
open door
the cat makes a u-turn
frosty morning
haiku 20231125 » Sunderland, UK
wind coming down
from the mountains
the smell of snow
haiku 20231126 » Saint Augustine, FL USA
thanksgiving sunday
a jay stashes a peanut
in our garden wall
That’s it! See you on the narrow road!
Loved the back story. Hope you are not in much pain anymore. Enjoyed the injured finger haiku!