open sky :: SAMVAAD/ 30th November

Aparna Pathak
Nov 30
1 min read

hosts : Sanjuktaa Asopa & Aparna Pathak

winter rain

my employment history

all on one page

-Cherie Hunter Day

(First Place in Pinewood Haiku Contest 2008; published in Wisteria #9 (April 2008)

7 Comments

sanjuktaa

Dec 05

Thank you everybody for your comments.

Here's what Cherie Hunter Day has to say about the poem:

I do recall the inspiration for this haiku. My husband had been without employment for six months or so. We discussed various solutions, and one was for me to change jobs. As I looked at my resume it seemed paltry. It rains in southern California in winter, sometimes heavily but nowhere near monsoon-level rain. Rain is the source of life in so many places. This haiku is hopeful. Despite my work experience being slim, the rains would provide the much-needed water.