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Haiku
Spirit Issue #7
AUGUST 1996
stars fill the hatchway
swaying
to the smell of melon
George Marsh
pedalling wildly
i struggle into the wind
with summer's first swifts
Martin Lucas
mosquito
with swollen belly -
blood kin, he and I
Nasira Alma
still chirping
as a long, hot day ends -
churchyard sparrows
Jim Norton
at low tide
listening to the lovely mud
puckering
George Marsh
just to feel warm earth
i pull potatoes
long after dark
LeRoy Gorman
Mountain wind
through my ribcage
already
Ken Jones
sunset -
the wild swan crying again
to his dead mate
Nasira Alma
Elder-flowers
by my grandparents' grave
with empty hands
Jim Norton
left up after cleaning eaves
the ladder
the stars
LeRoy Gorman
blind man
smiling
at his wife
Nasira Alma