worn weave
Haiga by Marietta McGregor, Agnes Eva Savich and Elizabeth Gold, Paméla Overeynder, C.X. Turner, Louise Hopewell
distant thunder
along shallow gutters
flash of whiting
Marietta McGregor
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
secrets…
the side of the moon
we never see
Poet: Agnes Eva Savich
Photographer: Elizabeth Gold
worn weave
this precarious
floating
world
Paméla Overeynder
Austin, Texas, USA
watering ban dreaming the river back
C.X. Turner
United Kingdom
squawking seagulls
teenagers perform backflips
from the old jetty
Louise Hopewell
Australia
Editor Bio: A member of the Austin Haiku Group and a psychic artist, Melanie Alberts is writing a spiritual memoir combining haibun, tanka prose, and haiga. Her haiga galleries can be found on The Haiku Foundation website. She is a contributing editor of Lone Star Poetry: Championing Texas Verse, Community, and Hunger Relief. Melanie enjoys following fellow haiku writers, artists, psychics, and mediums from around the world on Instagram: @clair.circles.spirit.art
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