Dan Schwerin
Always
Always behind him with an ice cream
as he drags the mower.
In his dreams he hears her,
and the hay waits another cutting.
A bull bellows when the pastor
comes to this light in August.
Dan Schwerin’s poetry comes from life on a farm or making his rounds across thirty plus years as a pastor in Wisconsin, and now as the bishop of the Northern Illinois-Wisconsin Area of The United Methodist Church. His debut haiku collection, ORS, from red moon press, won the Haiku Foundation’s Touchstone Award in 2016. His collection of American sijo, lightly, is available at red moon press. You can find him on Twitter @SchwerinDan.