hedgerow #18

welcome to #18 of hedgerow, bringing you nine different poets & artists! a big thank you to contributors & readers alike. please keep sending in your work as well as spreading the word, every effort really counts. happy friday everyone!

Susan Constable

Dark Clouds

after a week
of unsettling dreams
she watches him
with a thousand eyes,
keeps her back to the wall

hands, we’re told,
are more memorable
than a face:
her delicate fingers,
the size of his fist

petals curl
during a drought …
losing her
I inhale the scent
of white gardenias

a dark cloud
hangs over their house
month after month
they dress in the grief
that consumes them

Susan Constable lives on the west coast of Canada, where she’s been writing mainly haiku and tanka for the past nine years. She is currently the tanka editor for the online journal, A Hundred Gourds.

Barbara Kaufmann

Barbara Kaufmann can be found (or lost) wandering in the woods, beaches and gardens of New York, her camera and notebook in hand, hunting for poems.http://wabisabipoet.wordpress.com/

Joyce Joslin Lorenson

a crack in winter
just wide enough
to let spring in

muted
clang of a bell
newborn calf

Joyce Joslin Lorenson lives in Rhode Island, U.S.A., grew up on a dairy farm and records the daily happenings in nature around her rural home.

Vibeke Laier

winter packed
in four boxes
last year’s clouds

Vibeke Laier lives in Randers, Denmark, she has been writing and studying poetry since 2012, but her interest in the art of haiku stretches back to when she was a schoolgirl.

Ed Bremson

Cissy

she was a poet
in love with a man
from the land of song

on her dressing table
a diary with cover
coral pink

on its pages
her beautiful thoughts written
in violet ink

she wore blue for luck
ate poetic things –
tulips, roses

and stared out the window
as rain fell in
the rusty bucket

Ed Bremson, MFA, Raleigh, NC
haiga blog: http://edbremson.tumblr.com

David J Kelly

David J Kelly lives and works in Dublin, Ireland, where he finds scientific and artistic inspiration in the natural world.

Grant David Savage

water …
you spread your arms
but all this moonlight
between river, sky, and lover
who could decide

Grant David Savage is a poet and nature photographer living in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. To inquire about his new book “is … fog … is/ Algonquin Park Haiku ” email him at grantdsavage@yahoo.com

Tony Johnson

You make butterflies
open inside
my ribcage;
an uncertain
yet comforting
feeling.

Tony Johnson lives in Moreno Valley, CA where he writes by the light of the moon, seeking his creativity from a dark past and emerging with poems about love, relationships, and childhood.

Mark Ross

if all you had was a window