HAIKU: JO McINERNEY
Walleah Press
Currajah
Famous Reporter
spring squall bright ties snap from dark suits we shelter beneath our sunhats spring rain (famous reporter 35: June 2007) dry creek bed a high wind smudges the skywriter's line old wedding photographs he looks uncertain my childhood home through the floorboards summer grass selling up a butterfly lights on the good china (famous reporter 36: February 2008) log road a wombat on the verge stiffening library clock the sound between the lines hallow's eve... the moon reflected in an old dog's eye my daughter tall now as mother's headstone (famous reporter 37: Jun 2008)
(famous reporter 35: June 2007)
(famous reporter 36: February 2008)
Jo McInerney is a teacher living in country Victoria, with a partner and a daughter who also write. Some of her haiku and tanka can be found online at Modern English Tanka and The Heron's Nest.