product of a life in poetry

i was doing my weekly household chores this morning hoping to get them done before the heat really set in & man!  is it really fucking warm!!  i'm telling you could fry an egg on the sidewalk [not really, but ya know what i mean?!] at any rate, i found this note from robert hansen in the proof of an anthology of haiku i co-edited with my brother jonathan hayes & with all that is going on in the world & in our own lives & thinking how short our time on this earth is i mean holy fuck! i am an oldster now & i wonder how the spacetime between meeting robert at his old store The Book Collector when we were both in our early 30s to right now got folded so freaking fast

so here's to you robert, i miss you brother