Mike Dillon

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Uncle

When his four seasons were up
he took to his deathbed and leveled
his smile straight at midnight.

It was from there he whispered:
"I always told the Swainson's thrush
his song is beautiful."

An hour later he departed
lacking nothing but unease.

Mike Dillon lives in Indianola, Washington, a small town on Puget Sound northwest of Seattle. He is the author of four books of poetry and three books of haiku. Several of his haiku were included in "Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years", from W.W. Norton (2013). "Departures", a book of poetry and prose about the forced removal of Bainbridge Island's Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor will be published by Unsolicited Press in April 2019