near the cannery
a whole apple orchard
in one rail wagon
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karasu / Ross Clark
karasu / Ross Clark is the author of 2 chapbooks of haiku and 7 volumes of poetry, and a founding editor publisher of Australia's only haiku journal, Paper Wasp. He is currently creatively unemployed, writing poems, haiku and folksongs during a Brisbane summer.
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a buzz-
too soon the apple cider
many fruit flies drawn
This also brings to mind the way a single flower on my desk can become a garden in winter; a shell, the beach; a letter, a friendship; and a poem, a major life event. Thank you.
a buzz-
too soon the apple cider
many fruit flies drawn
Very effective Ross, I really like this one.
This also brings to mind the way a single flower on my desk can become a garden in winter; a shell, the beach; a letter, a friendship; and a poem, a major life event. Thank you.
ross, some farmers would just do this;
aesthetics
leaving some apples on the trees
after the harvest
waves breaking
beneath the pier —
shattered boards