Mike Dillon
Pioneer Cemetery
Dusk. The last robin carols.
The wooden, roughly shaped cross
is firmly in place
above the empty grave's dank soil
awaiting morning
and a roughly shaped coffin
to be lowered alongside
the tenanted graves of his compeers
who've already made the circuit
around the stars
before returning home
through earth's dark door.
Bio
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