between Orion & Crux a jumbo’s lights
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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. View all posts by karasu / Ross Clark
_Travelers, twixt Orien and the Southern Cross.
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Ah, Orion’s Belt and the Southern Cross, my favourite bits of Queensland sky. Thank you Ross!
Worldly connections
Remotely controlled by you
Never a blank screen
It is a fantastical haiku.
…however a fulcrom
in this confused world:
the Southern Crox
Wonderful, Ross. I’ve been reading up on constellations lately and so this one really hit target for me.
Linda
(a boreal who’s never seen Crux)
And the Jumbo_?
Magyar, i trust the jumbo isn’t lost among the stars. your comment brightens my morn.
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dawn’s journey
up from the darkness
this owl roost
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peaceful the travel prior to dawn, skeletoids line the road, things in black and grey. slowing along a quiet road, glances through an open top, hoping for a shooting star. then comes the palette of dawn, greys, steel blues, and mauves…