lake shimmer
a jetty stretches…
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…
first daffodil
forever…
beachcombing the detritus…
cold light another empty…
border attack . . .
lupine…
on the mend . . .
this long …
final prognosis different…
first encounter
a glasswing…
after the …
shrieking…
chasing shadows …
familiar tune my children’s…
disused road roots resurfacing…
midday heat still ticking…
unable to help myself rip…