Viola Haiku
Small purple blossoms
Greet day in morning coolness
Sweet childlike faces
Snapshot
Young woman sits on bench
and carefully picks up tiny
black roly-poly she discovers
on cement ground
It does not roll to protect
itself but appears to pose
on her arm for a photo
She rises to put
it with flowers and plants
but accidently drops the bug
Upset, she quickly urges
it back on her hand
to situate it in a safe place
I watch the scene
play out before me
and observe
my granddaughter’s
sensitivity
Her tenderness resembles
that of her youth
when she turned over
the dirt in the garden
to watch pill bugs
roll up into balls
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