Portable Radio
By Victoria Crawford
 

We hear our elderly neighbor

at work woodworking, gardening

radio and music his companions

Mangled Thai and English,

with a charade of hands

we trade flowers and cuttings

This morning we walk by

see thirsty plants, hear no music

a silent pause for farewell, neighbor

Victoria Crawford is a poet living in Thailand. She enjoys writing short form poetry, particularly haiku and tanka, about all forms of nature from her pocket-sized garden to hiking in northern Thailand jungles.  Her poems have been published in many journals and have followed the natural worlds of all the countries she has lived in.