tinywords » David Serjeant http://tinywords.com haiku & other small poems Fri, 13 Jan 2012 20:00:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://tinywords.com/2011/12/09/8408/ http://tinywords.com/2011/12/09/8408/#comments Sat, 10 Dec 2011 00:15:09 +0000 David Serjeant http://tinywords.com/?p=8408 home from the city—
waiting at the station
Orion

 

 

 

 

 

Original version published in Shamrock.

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mother the
same hard face

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flirting with the workmen
. . . endless summer rain

 

 

 

 

originally published in Riverbed.

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war ruins…
suddenly the cicadas
stop

 

 

 

 

Author’s note: The photo was taken (and the haiku was composed) in a bombed out hotel complex on the Croatian coast last year.

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he hauls her wheelchair
from the beach

 

 

 

 

Originally published in Presence.

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in the rear-view the crow
settles back on the roadkill

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an old car
an old man and
an old dog

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christmas lights . . .
the ambulance flashing
in all the windows

The haiku in this image previously appeared in Blithe Spirit 17:1.

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