Uploaded on December 11, 2011
old woman, wrapping
her cat’s gifts
— centering the bows
—Carol Montgomery
The Haiku Anthology edited by Cor Van Den Heuvel
12.11.2023: This is a powerful poem. Oh, and here’s a comment I left on it over at Flickr: When I was wrapping this, and other gifts, Stella (2.5 yrs old) kept saying, “That’s my birthday present!”