Dur­ing the four­teen years we’ve pub­lished this col­umn we’ve shown you many fine short poems, and the news­pa­pers that print our week­ly selec­tions like it that we don’t take up too much of their ​“news hole.” I thought this week it might be good to show you a haiku, which as you know is a Japan­ese form that tries to cap­ture life in a spark-like flash. This one is by Lori Becher­er of Mill­stadt, Illi­nois, and I found it in a 2017 issue of Mod­ern Haiku. There’s a great deal of life, and of life’s end, in these eight words.