Kirsty Karkow kirsty@midcoast.com English no personal web site United States I had used up half my life before finding haiku or haiku found me.  So much to learn, so little time. Such fun!  I was born in London and raised in the British West Indies and on a small ranch my American mother had homesteaded in Arizona. My husband and I have retired to the coast of Maine. The country and water are beautiful and we spend as much time as we can outside hiking, sailing, kayaking, etc. It is a wonderful life and a wonderful time for haiku.

kneading dough for poppyseed rolls his freckled back	empty shelf-- dusty outlines of books my parents read
foot-long icicles-- what to do with the spider in the fruit bowl	still morning only the sound of my tinnitus
channel marker fledgling ospreys stretch their wings	stone terrace the cat steps quickly with wet feet
soft rain new leaves on river willows	inchworm on a fiddlehead fern- robin's shadow
mirror calm under the kayak paddle an eagle's flight	quiet morning the burble as the paddle touches clouds