For Frank J. Tassone’s haikai prompt, which, this week, can be about either Labor Day or the near arrival of autumn (risshuu). This one is a tanka.
School used to begin
after Labor Day : now the
districts cannot wait
to bid students to return,
to make us get back to work
revivedwriter 
Reblogged this on Frank J. Tassone and commented:
#Haiku Happenings #6: revivedwriter’s latest #kyoka! (Note: a kyoka is to tanka what a senryu is to haiku.)
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Different school terms here – and different time of year for Labour Day – but yes, the powers that be would love to get everyone back to work … if only this pandemic would obediently cease.
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Normal? Will we ever see it again?
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One of the many inconveniences of life during Covid. Sigh.
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