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A Bit of Ourselves – Haiku by the Gourds Team

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Matthew Paul – England


Expositions Editor

A Hundred Gourds #2:3, June 2013 – A Hundred Gourds #3:4, September 2014

slipping unnoticed out of the house last sunbeams — Blithe Spirit #16:4, 2006

blighted chestnut the uppermost starling triggers a leaf — Wing Beats, Snapshot Press 2008

on a day the colour of rolling tobacco ragged-robin — Presence #37, 2009

powdermill ruins – honeybees reverse from balsam corollas — Winner: Snapshot Press              Haiku Calendar Competition, 2010

over the pile of spare agendas: a clambering ant — Presence #53, 2015

when the wind drops over Whalebone Marsh: harmonised bleats — A Hundred Gourds #5:3, 2016

off his mum's bowling a boy runs to field his own on-drive — Presence #40, 2010