January 2011

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Written by: Stephen Bailey

rock pool ...
the old man waits
on his own

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Waitangi Day ...
kauris grow past oaks
in silence

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summer heat -
active directory
on a break

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summer garden ...
my nose wrinkles
in the pond

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cicada
your ascent into song
all one imagines

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hui tanguru
surf laps my midriff
beyond my return

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boiling mud ...
even rocks may be
renewed

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blemished moon
shining on the wrinkles
of the sea

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the high price
of a cicada's silence -
summer sale

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overkill -
possum introductions
to a virgin land

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cicada chorus -
summer overflows
with sounds of praise

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bikini girls ...
so many butterflies
pressed into skin

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summer romance
going up in flames -
paper roses

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Ruaumoko -
an unborn child kicks
against shadows

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serval, otter,
buffalo and emu -
summer rain

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autumn shelter -
a morepork's call leads me
into the night

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twilight -
a stream cascades
from view

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autumn dawn ...
asian paper wasps swarm
over haiku

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haigha
through the looking glass -
march hare

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autumn horizon
hine-nui-te-po waits
gathering clouds

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ripening winds ...
the bloom of summer
scatters to earth

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drinking
from my reflection -
lenten fast

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autumn shadows -
within my footprints
a robin's meal

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fantasia ...
distant strains now
an apocalypse

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summer coda ...
a single cicada
droning

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breaking dawn -
the newspaper
lies unread

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bare rooftop -
a blackbird proclaims
its secret

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dusky sound -
all that remains
of the day

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bleak winter -
yet light breaks through
from darkness

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pilgrim friend
fading into mist -
then her song