Boomer
by Mike Dillon
My father never talked
about the War.
Sometimes the steep silence
of an abandoned well
swallowed him
and his blue eyes stared off
into nowhere’s
somewhere.
An hour after his funeral my mother
said to me
he cried just once
in his sleep
and not like a little boy, either.
About the Author
Mike Dillon lives in Indianola, Washington, a small town on Puget Sound northwest of Seattle. He is the author of four books of poetry and three books of haiku. Several of his haiku were included in "Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years," from W.W. Norton (2013). His most recent book, “Departures: Poetry and Prose on the Removal of Bainbridge Island’s Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor,” was published by Unsolicited Press in April 2019.