Sydney Beveridge

Producer of radio, a kid, many haikus and occasional musings.
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Mom #Haiku No. 883 (6/10/26)

First rule of PT:
talk about PT, a lot.
My new religion.

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Mom #Haiku No. 882 (6/9/26)

We be the water.
You mean we swim together?
No, we are water.

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Mom #Haiku No. 881 (6/8/26)

Where is that donut?
Thought she’d forgotten that treat.
Uhm, it got too old.

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Mom #Haiku No. 880 (6/7/26)

Math lessons count up
whines, “I need a hundred hands!”
Stretch with each lesson.

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Mom Haiku #879 (6/6/26)

Walk slow to heal fast.
Breeze moves oak leaves while I lag,
study our shadows.

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Mom #Haiku #878 (6/5/26)

“I want to hug you.”
Kid reaches out. “With my foot.”
Toes caress my face.

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Mom #Haiku No. 877 (6/4/26)

My mom, your grandma
can beat us both at Go Fish.
She helps us swim too.

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Mom #Haiku No. 876 (6/3/26)

Ice for my coffee.
Extra ice for my ankle.
Refresh and relieve.

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Mom #Haiku No. 875 (6/2/26)

Patient is “pleasant”
my doctor wrote in his notes.
A clinical truth!

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Mom #Haiku No. 874 (6/1/26)

We sweat together.
Steady me. Lift me. Heal me.
Compression sock hug.

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Mom #Haiku No. 873 (5/31/26)

“I wish our bodies
were made of #mozzarella.”
Sweetly cheesy dreams.

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Mom #Haiku No. 872 (5/30/26)

Advocacy math:
action table plus snack pile
equals energy.

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Mom #Haiku #871 (5/29/26)

Step aside, weather.
Ankle is my small talk now.
Injury clouds all.

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Mom #Haiku No. 870 (5/28/26)

Scrub. I bathe the kid.
A-dub. She bathes her balloon.
Dub. Both squeaky clean.

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Mom #Haiku No. 869 (5/27/26)

Car nap soothes us all
until it stretches bedtime.
But it was worth it.

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Mom #Haiku No. 868 (5/26/26)

Heat and thoughts swelter.
“So humid! I feel crispy.
I’m like a fire slug.”

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Mom #Haiku No. 867 (5/25/26)

There are no sidewalks
and the bagels are smaller.
Kid sums up upstate.

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Mom #Haiku No. 866 (5/24/26)

Forgot how to talk
to grownups like humans do.
Did I ever know?

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Mom #Haiku No. 865 (5/23/26)

We talk up spinach.
Sprout leafy propaganda.
“I could lift the earth!”

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Mom #Haiku No. 864 (5/22/26)

“Potty is my dream.
Now it is my dream to pee.”
Sounds dreamy to me.