HAIKU: GRAHAM NUNN

Walleah Press

Currajah

Famous Reporter

clear river

the fisherman's

un-netted reflection

 

breathless night

the cicadas

shut up

 

between the dunes

evening mist

piles up

(famous reporter # 33: Aug 2006)

 

hot jazz

the first staccato beats

of rain

 

begging bowls

in the hands of children

lotus flowers

(famous reporter # 34, Dec 2006)

 

letting my tongue

deeper into

the strawberry sundae

 

red dusk

the ferris wheel

brushes clouds

 

first day of the show

jams settling

against their seals

 

sunset

last bite of

the toffee apple

 

first date

too scared to kiss

on the ghost train

(famous reporter # 36: Feb 2008. Graham wrote the above haiku while writer-in-residence at the Royal National Agricultural and Industrial Association Show in August 2007).

 

 

maple leaves scatter

across the bay

red moon

 

still water

the whisper of rope

against pylons

(famous reporter # 38: Dec 2008)

Graham Nunn is a Brisbane-based writer, current member of Queensland Poetry Festival Management Committee, co-publisher and editor of Small Change Press (www.smallchangepress.com.au) and a founding member of performance group, SpeedPoets (www.speedpoets.org). His work has been published widely in journals and online and has been described as assured, achieved & ambitious. He has published four collections of poetry, the latest, Ruined Man is now available from www.smallchangepress.com.au