rising from prayer/ i find myself/ in tourist photographs
Author: karasu / Ross Clark
karasu / Ross Clark is the author of 2 chapbooks of haiku and 7 volumes of poetry, and a founding editor publisher of Australia's only haiku journal, Paper Wasp. He is currently creatively unemployed, writing poems, haiku and folksongs during a Brisbane summer.
washing up
she looks at the backyard pine
its old nest
between Orion & Crux a jumbo’s lights
above the ferris wheel lights
a moon-smile
old neighbourhood:
welcomed back by
my graffiti
fire drill:
as soon as she gets outside
she lights up
morning tai chi
& the first kangaroo
motionless too
at the news-stand
today’s truths stacked up
taller than me
my cousin’s granddaughters
flirt with me
at his funeral
your farewell gift of chocolates i taste you once a day
near the cannery
a whole apple orchard
in one rail wagon
life model
performs
stillness
at dusk
moths gather
to the painting
lovemaking after midnight sirens in the distance
6.00 am:
sun plays peek-a-boo
at baby’s window
camping
morning sun over my shoulder
as i shave
dead
on the Christmas tree
a dragonfly
the song of bees
turning weeds
to honey
inch by inch
the full moon escapes
from the spiderweb
wind in the long grass
every green thing
breathing
everywhere now
the sound of one
phone ringing
old man
in vegie patch
almost a scarecrow
