sunlight
on the draining board
…a cabbage butterfly
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Helen Buckingham
Helen Buckingham lives in Wells, UK. Her work appears regularly in journals and anthologies including: Frogpond, The Heron's Nest, Modern Haiku, Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years (W.W. Norton, 2013) and nada annunaad: an anthology of contemporary world haiku (Vishwakarma Publications, 2016). She won first prize in the Martin Lucas Award, 2016. Her most recent collection is the Touchstone Award shortlisted sanguinella (Red Moon Press, 2017).
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beautiful, so full of light! (light, whiteness of this butterfly, no weight)
i love it!
Pure white
on a rotten wood-
life and death
scattering dawn’s light-
on pulsating black butterfly wing
dew drop forms
river
is flowing calm
only fishes kittling…
pulse rising…
orange butterflies in flight, no
only this checkered white