One of two tanka appearing Eucalypt: A Tanka Journal, Issue 28, 2020

in the attic I find
your small Wellies                            
with little frog faces—
oh, those happy puddles
when you were only three

Note: We lived near Hampstead Heath in NW London for a full academic year, 1989-90, with our (then) three year old son, Adam. Oh, how he loved rain puddles and stomping in them in his little green Wellies. Getting exercise each day was never a problem with a child who loved the outdoors no matter what the weather. This poem is for him.