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  1. Love that line about their beaks being stuffed with Spring!
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    all those red apples amongst the blue tit

    Alan Summers

    Publication credits:
    Bones – a journal for contemporary haiku Issue 0.1 2012 reissued 2013
    Roadrunner 12.3 MASKS 4 (2012)

    Collection:
    Does Fish-God Know (Yet To Be Named Free Press 2012)

    1. I love the fact I misread the haiku:

      cherry buds
      the blue tit’s beak
      stuffed with string

      —KATRINA SHEPHERD

      Now on revisiting and reading it correctly I get two wonderful haiku for the price of one!!!
      :-)

      warm regards,

      Alan

      1. …..then I went and misread your comment (as string) Alan, and gave it a like! D'you fancy a joint trip to the opticians?!

        Lovely ku, Katrina – a great twist, beautifully executed – really jumps off the page.

          1. You really do need that trip to the optician's Alan! You wrote spring – I thought you wrote string, and gave it a like! Check your diary, I'll give the optician a ring in the morning…..xx

  2. I liked the last line "stuffed with string". It speaks of so many things that seem simple and common and yet most of the time we fail to notice them.

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