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Haiku
Spirit Issue #11
AUGUST 1997
Inishboffin Abù
Glabhàn ~ hill garden
carved from the rock with effort
delicious sweet tea
Astute islanders
gather the summer harvest
winter solitude
two hundred locals
share their pubs with us, knowing
we don't understand
On rocky green hills
some old houses stand forlorn
forgotten stories
Philip Keogh
cat from the street
shares with an old lady
the milk that's left
two wrinkled hands
join
to say goodbye
Gilles Fabre
Summer day
far out to sea
rain falling
Joe McFadden
Summer evening's silence
on the fireplace
one rose petal has fallen
Midsummer's day ~
two men
cut a dead street tree
Summer evening debate ~
the grandfather
has not lit his pipe yet
Pub's round toilet window
just big enough ~
the summer full moon
Gilles Fabre
Jet setting monk
laptop and begging bowl
the air hostess bows
Ken Jones (Spring 1997, Kyoto and Kamakura)
friends come and go
four teabags in the sink
the fading light
Jim Norton
a perfect bookmark
if it were longer
this grey hair of mine
Gilles Fabre
Hurry we're late!
Sucking dew from a rose
this particular snail
Jim Norton
the afternoon darkens:
the boy's hand
puts his father in check
Gilles Fabre
-by itself, in darkness
a garlic clove sprouts
Jim Norton