Spritz | Haibun in the Pan Haiku Review

 

Dr Alan Summers, editor of The Pan Haiku Review, has just released their latest publication and I'm excited to have been included twice!

Here is the first of my Haibun (a Japanese combination of prose and haiku):

Spritz

I’m passing through St. Marco’s Piazza. It’s the cigarette smoke wafting past me that

captures my attention first. I turn and catch her eye. Valerie?

crossing the square

in the evening light, the past

overtakes me