Bereft – a Haibun*

*The haibun is the combination of two poems: a prose poem and haiku. The form was popularized by the 17th century Japanese poet Matsuo Basho.

If you can’t travel, treevel!

Now, what’s that, you ask? Treevel? It’s more than a difference of vowels between travel and treevel. When you travel you have to carry so much baggage along. When you treevel, you hardly need to take a few steps or maybe you just close your eyes.