This is for Rick Daddario’s 30 DOH/Days of Haiga. Read more at
https://19planets.wordpress.com/2017/09/10/haiga-2017-010-30doh-mississippi-flood-waters-circa-1940-50-minnesota. Photo below is my daughter’s.
Past Measure
plaintive musings of
heat radiating
from the rafters
we contemplate
a moment after
but continue on in
search of the
perfect treasure
every one someone’s
past measure
old photographs in
sepia tones
a baby doll of
porcelin, clothes
yellowed and torn
coal shuttle boxes
now retired
carnival glass
pottery dinnerware
long since fired
a day of retreating
back in time
touching other’s
lives simpler then
in lines of rhyme
© July 2012
Renee Espriu
reneejustturtleflight.com 