funeral hymn
time and again
the same wave resurfacing
Author: Julie Mellor
Julie Mellor holds a PhD from Sheffield Hallam University. Her mainstream poetry pamphlets, Breathing Through Our Bones (2012) and Out of the Weather (2017) are published by Smith/Doorstop. Over the last few years she has become more interested in writing haiku and haibun. She is currently the reviews' editor at Presence. She blogs at http://juliemellorpoetsite.wordpress.com
spring rain
hearing my mother’s voice
in the names of flowers
winter grazing
the hoof prints of cattle
gone to slaughter
all the way back to childhood cabbage whites
white moon at dawn the substation’s hum
hint of woodsmoke
the collie sleeps
with one ear cocked
surface ripples
the songs my mother
knew by heart
crepuscular light
the first puff of pine smoke
enters the hive
harvest moon
laughter bubbles
from the neighbor’s hot tub