Momma hasn’t come home.

I ask Grandma, When? She says, Any day now.

But Momma sent a text I wasn’t supposed to see. Need break. It’s all too much.

The sun cuts the leaves into drops of time. I spin in the driveway, singing:

Any day any day any day.

L.L. Wohlwend’s work has appeared in Haibun Today, Contemporary Haibun Online, Modern Haiku, and other places.