gated
complex
in the grip
of wisteria
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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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Excellent! Thank you!
Made me laugh (although it’s a sad fact). Never saw before that wistfulness an hysteria could be elegantly combined in a flower!
Spare and vivid! So nice!!
“in the grip
of wisteria”
how lovely is that!