Southern California, a haiku sequence
Palm Sunday:
a hummingbird drinks his fill
of sugared water
* * *
Santa Monica
he skates past the sign:
TSUNAMI HAZARD ZONE
* * *
gin martinis –
a woman with a walker
moves in and out of view
* * *
a row of palm tree silhouettes above Sunset Boulevard
* * *
scent of a lemon just released from its tree
* * *
San Diego Bay –
its deep blue darkened
by an aircraft carrier
we three walk
by the empty reservoir –
orange blossom fragrance
* * *
a mockingbird
tries out another voice –
Easter Sunday
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Maeve O’Sullivan is in education in Dublin. Her poems and haiku have been widely published and anthologized in journals. She has published three collections: Initial Response (haiku, 2011), Vocal Chords (poetry, 2014) and A Train Hurtles West (haiku, 2015), all of them with Alba Publishing (www.albapublishing.com). Maeve is a founding member of Haiku Ireland and the Hibernian Poetry Workshop, and she also performs at events with The Poetry Divas. www.twitter.com/writefromwithin
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