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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
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blighted chestnut
the uppermost starling
triggers a leaf
—
Wing Beats, Snapshot Press 2008
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on a day the colour
of rolling tobacco
ragged-robin
— Presence
#37, 2009
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powdermill
ruins –
honeybees reverse
from balsam corollas
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Winner: Snapshot Press
Haiku Calendar Competition, 2010
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over the pile
of spare agendas:
a clambering ant
— Presence
#53, 2015
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when
the wind drops
over Whalebone Marsh:
harmonised bleats
— A
Hundred Gourds #5:3, 2016
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off his mum's bowling
a boy runs to field
his own on-drive
— Presence
#40, 2010
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