Haiku Tuesday

My dragonfly notebook with raw haiku notes about Tuesday's adventures. Good luck with my handwriting.
Background is the the vet bill and some other horse bills and identification papers.

Here are the haiku, ordered chronologically and edited a bit.


I whistle
but the horse doesn't come-
blood covers her face

Every approaching car
is again not the vet's

Another emergency call-
I dial the phone for the vet
while she sutures

Once the blood is cleaned up,
all the watchers vanish.

Sedation wearing off-
slowly she blinks,
and steals a cookie off the table

My unemployment check
straight into the hand of the vet

After everything is done
check written, blood cleaned, horse freed-
then I start to shake

"How much?"
my husband doesn't ask on the phone
and I can't tell him



I'd like to enter the contest by
with something more "poetic"- but these are really
an accurate capture of my Tuesday afternoon.

CCT
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Thank you to Siragiku-sensei and MoyanII
for the gift haiku and translation

Haiku Tuesday by ~RedDragonfly
五月雨や句帳の中は青の青
samidare ya kuchou no naka wa ao no ao

rain in may-
blue on blue
in the haiku memo.

this one seems a little melancholic.
rainy season in may tends to make one feel blue. of course, the dragonfly notebook in the photo has sky-blue pages and has haiku written in blue ink!
and, a hurt pet horse certainly add a tint of worry and moodiness to the atmosphere.