Haibun Postcards

Aidan Barger

Haibun Postcard: from Pullman City Cemetery

Sweeping across dirt, the cold breeze tugs at brown, waterlogged leaves. It rained yesterday. Small red berries, like bits of melon,...

Aidan Barger

Haibun Postcard: from the railroad tracks near Reaney Park, Pullman

The sun sets on wrinkled rose hips. They bob beside the tracks approaching Grand Avenue while underneath a leafless tree floats a ghost...

Aidan Barger

Haibun Postcard: from Wawawai County Park, Whitman County

As I open the door of my car, the beetle rushes by. It hobbles over the pebbles baked into the asphalt, speeding over the yellow parking...

Aidan Barger

Haibun Postcard: from the WSU Arboretum & Conservation Center, Pullman

The fly rests near the ragged, juicy plum skin, wind coursing over its iridescent thorax. Stripes of moss fill cracks on the wooden...

Aidan Barger

Haibun Postcard: from the Latah Trail, in the direction of Troy

The two-striped grasshopper waits while the wind gusts, and the crabapple tree whispers through its leaves. The clouds speed across the...

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