lake shimmer
a jetty stretches
towards dawn
Author: Marion Clarke
Runner-up in the Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing 2023, Marion Clarke is from Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland. She has been studying and writing short form poetry since 2012 and her work features regularly in international journals and anthologies. Winner of three Sakura awards and long and shortlisted in the Touchstone Awards, Marion was invited to judge the San Francisco International Haiku Competition 2022, and to edit the September 2023 issue of the haibun journal Drifting Sands. Further info at http://seaviewwarrenpoint.wordpress.com/
playground leaves the rattle of hometown ghosts
first daffodil
forever
the show-off
beachcombing the detritus of us
cold light another empty bottle promise
border attack . . .
lupine seed heads
pop in the heat
on the mend . . .
this long afternoon
stitched by swallows
final prognosis different clouds on the horizon
first encounter
a glasswing enters
our renku
after the ceremony gossiping jackdaws
shrieking gull falling from a cliff this fear of flying
chasing shadows we wait on news of her scan
familiar tune my children’s voices above the mountain stream
disused road roots resurfacing
midday heat still ticking abandoned bicycle
unable to help myself rip tide