Today we ripped the old dishwasher
from the kitchen where it has made its home
for the last thirty years.
Dust coated pipes and hoses
were exposed in all their nakedness
and seemed to be embarrassed by the intrusion
into their dark, private hole in the wall.
Toni Calvello's work has appeared in the Haiku Society of America Anthology, frogpond-Haiku Society of America Journal, Paterson Literary Review, Edison Literary Review, Chiron Review, Asphodel, Stellar Showcase Journal, Canadian Zen Haiku: Online International Publication