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Kirsty Karkow Here are a few reader favorites from Kirsty Karkow's book, water poems: haiku, sijo and tanka. 400 copies have been sold and a second printing has just been released by Black Cat Press.

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kingfisher blue
a flash along the shore
I rest my oars
musing on when last it was
I had a brilliant thought

I let her go
no words or hugs
goodbye
the days grow shorter
and the evenings cool

where milky skies
meet the rolling ocean
familiar blues
these faded loveletters
folded and unfolded

cast up by the sea
fragments of a wooden boat
on the white-sand beach
tides reverse like steady breaths
uncovering bits of dreams

   

Poetry Copyright © 2006 by Kirsty Karkow.


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