Continental Divide
Hiking above treeline in the Rocky Mountains several months after our marriage, my wife surprises me by saying, “Of course we are going to get divorced one day.” Breathtaking, snow-covered, fourteen-thousand-foot peaks encircling us, I ask her why she feels this way. She doesn’t answer my question, and instead wonders aloud if we’ll be turning around soon.
signing papers
I realized everyone she knows
is remarried
Michael G. Smith, Bozeman, MT, is a chemist. Recent haibun and poetry of his have been published in Contemporary Haibun Online and The Waxed Lemon.
You can see more of Michael's work in 13.1 and 12.2 and 12.2 and 12.1 and 11.1 and 11.1 and 11.1 and 10.2 and 9.2 and 9.2 and 9.2