Upon Hearing My Haiku Is Pointless

What’s the point of

Layers of grey cloud

are leaving the landscape wet

Ducklings in the grass

a literary critic asked me,

saying who cares about ducks

in the grass and why would anyone

read a poem about them

and I emphasized ducklings

which are the babies

and people are always drawn to babies

because they’re cute and in this case

they’re fuzzy and walk in a row

after their mother

and the mother isn’t mentioned in the haiku

if you’ll notice

and the point might be that they’re lost,

maybe orphaned,

that the grey cloud leaving the landscape

was far more vicious than we realize,

casting mother duck away in a storm

and her babies doing an awkward waddle

in search of her and please tell me then

you don’t give a shit.

Andreas Gripp

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