Here are three haikai (two haiku and one tanka) from three separate writers…








Gray Day

 

wet snowbird twitters

watching as all turns to white

hard to fly today

 

by Mike Carson



Sardine
 
crammed and waterless
far from sea's gentle gullet
my metal coffin


by Padrika Tarrant



On the corner of your collar
 
On the corner of your collar
one melting
 
the heat of the tram
licking it in
 
– on the commuter tongue
one breath, animal-strong


by Helen Pletts