Haiku


Valentine's dawn
two lines of footprints
in the fresh snow


streetlamp
snowflakes' shadows
so grey

    
morning love
the blizzard intensifies
outside my window

        
deserted park
naked trees
full of crows

            
insomnia
the moonlight
filters through curtains


river swelling
he loosens the belt
on his trousers

    
street mime
the weight of an unseen bird
on his hand

    
sunset—
snowdrifts beside the house
change colour

            
winter solstice
the whistle of a blackbird
through the misty air


home again
height marks of my children
faded

   
autistic boy—
an unending snowstorm
in the glass ball

        
thaw
a chirp of sparrows seeps
through my window

            

            Tanka

            

    buzz of voices
    on the crowded beach
    behind the red buoy
    I dive
    in the deep blue


    
            meadow at dawn
            the skirt aerial dance
            amidst the poppies
            past the
            crickets' song

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