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Departure Bay:
cumulo nimbi
won’t take a hint
(Nanaimo, BC)
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Departure Bay –
the rooster tail trail
of a small speed boat
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Emily Carr House –
even the bees wipe their feet
at each blossom porch
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horse and buggy tour –
a satellite dish aimed
at your childhood home
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Emily, your brush
dips with the grace of this bee
on each pendant bloom
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Emily Carr House –
I scan the strawberry patch
for a ripe berry
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Richard Stevenson has 30 full-length and 10 chapbook publications to his credit, counting three forthcoming volumes: Fruit Wedge Moon: Haiku, Senryu, Tanka, Kyoka, and Zappai (Hidden Brook Press), Rock, Scissors, Paper: The Clifford Olson Murders (long poem sequence, Grey Borders Press), and The Heiligen Effect: Selected Haikai Poems and Sequences (Ekstasis Editions), which should all be out ion 2015 or 2016. He is recently retired after thirty years of teaching for Lethbridge College and six years teaching elsewhere.