Attraction
This isn’t about long-term relationships, mea culpas, or regrets, so there’s no chance the nimble-fingered pickpocket hightailing it down a cobblestone street will glance back, but if he did, he’d see mouths shouting, fingers pointing, arms flailing and hair flying:
foaming fury
riding the crest
of a great wave
dl mattila is an American poet living in the Greater Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Area. Her work appears in national and international print and on-line publications to include: Contemporary Haibun Online, Frogpond, Modern Haiku, Presence, Shamrock, and Wales Haiku Journal, to name a few.
See more of her work in 9.2