Patricia Aya Williams

Patricia Aya Williams is currently enrolled in the San Diego Writers, Ink Poetry Certificate Program. Her poems have been published in San Diego Poetry Annual, City Works Literary Journal and (upcoming) Writers Resist online journal. She is also an iPhone/iPad digital artist and lives in San Diego with her husband and their French bulldog.

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Haiku for Parents

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Patricia Aya Williams CVR Haiku for Parents

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first day in U.S.
don’t open the door he says
to his Japanese wife

looking at old photographs
mom didn’t smile
until 1971

touring the Midway
walking where dad walked
touching what he touched

a little of this
a little of that
her patchwork Navy life

that last vacation
road trip to Charleston
no idea he was sick

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number of the Midway
his age when he died

how he must have felt
knowing he wouldn’t live
to see his kid grow up

thankless job
both competing with
dead father

mom’s house
surprised by how small
everything looks

in the hospital
near the end
I’m sorry she says

across the street
little hapa girl
like watching myself grow up

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