Making Do and Mending--By David J. Kelly--Ireland

Making Do and Mending

Here I am, without you,

on a journey of my own,

held together by the patches

that your loving hands have sewn.

Still bearing the expressions

that you’d frequently repair,

still enjoying the endurance

of those memories of care.

David J. Kelly is an animal ecologist based in Dublin, Ireland. While his day job revolves around science writing, his light poetry and Japanese verse forms (haiku, tanka, haibun and haiga) have been published in a number of journals and anthologies. He aspires to publish a book of poetry one day, when he has enough suitable material. David is a member of The British Haiku Society and Haiku Ireland.