JANE GIBIAN | Haiku



quiet sunday afternoon
the unexpected guest
takes my chair

winter evening alone
your watch by the bathtub

dry summer heat
choosing the ripest peach
from the blue bowl

sea breeze
my shadow hovers
on the ocean floor

easy silence
taking the bunch of keys
warm from your hand

spring morning
painted on the footpath:
proposed tree

empty house:
three seedpods ripen
on the windowsill

still winter
in the dried-out pots
freesia shoots appear

alone all day
                    a pale half-moon already risen

desert town
a flowering gum
yellow wih bees

in one corner
a red square of rat poison -
silent classroom

morning appointment:
pieces of my hair
tangled in the broom