Alternate Girl (a serialized hay(na)ku story--part one)

After a while
all the
pretty

girls
get married.
The ultimate achievement?

After the honeymoons
do they
ever

wonder
about the
“What could have

beens?”

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Alternate girl dreams
about the
country.

Far away from
her kitchen
window

she thinks life
could be
better.

She
sees fields
stretching out into

an unending vista
of "what
ifs".


A dutiful wife,
a loving
mother

the model “huisvrouw”.
Her garden
flourishes.


Springtime
brings one
hundred wisteria blossoms.

White English roses
climb her
pergola,

honeysuckle,
digitalis purpurea,
interspersed with lavender

from
Southern France.
Gardening = passion.

Weeds
are her
number one enemy.
***