Haiga Archive
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Mary Davila
28 January 2010she watches the gulls
where he watched the gulls
…one year later -
Ray Rasmussen
18 November 2009The last time here, families sharing picnic blankets and teens on beach towels crowded the lake front. I spent most of my time pretending to read, but really sneaking glances at a particular bikinied girl. I lay on my stomach to hide my lust.
This evening, the grasses are yellow, bent and worn from a summer’s use; the birch trees are barren of leaves; a windfall is spread beneath the apple tree.
resting
on the reed tip
an iridescent dragonflyA bull frog’s “wronk, wronk, wronk” breaks my reverie. I walk to the nearby lodge and sit alone. Several couples dine in silence, staring past one another.
mountain sunset
painted turtles slumber
on a weathered logLooking out the window, I see her again, taste that first kiss, touch her apple-hard breast.
What was her name…
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Liam Wilkinson
2 November 2009through the lashes
of a squint
our past becomes
a perfect picture
of us and then -
Liam Wilkinson
20 October 2009a grief
that never lets go…
you stand
as a monument
to yourself -
Linda Papanicolaou
17 September 2009heat shimmers
yesterday it sang
pond snail shell -
Linda Papanicolaou
7 September 2009Industries and land usages come and go, as structures, asphalt and whatever plantings survive the natural climate subside back into the marshes—with or without the millions we spend to restore what we’ve despoiled…
pickleweed
the salt marsh harvest mouse
about his business -
Linda Papanicolaou
6 September 2009Once your astonishment abates, this Roman temple in the California landscape seems almost natural. In actuality, it was built in 1910 as the pumping station for an aquaduct….
dreams of empire
a flock of grackles foraging
through dry grass -
Linda Papanicolaou
5 September 2009A big flood covered the world, drowning everyone except coyote, who only survived by scrambling onto the top of Mt. Diabolo. Eagle and hummingbird soon joined him……
golden gate
the beacon flashing out
on Alcatraz -
Linda Pilarski
17 June 2009abandoned homestead
a memory
of past lives
