Four Haiku

the bride bites into a rosebud
flight of white napkins
in the breeze

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Arabian dream
a sandarac tear
captures the sun

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moonlit Paris
the glimmering scales
of the sea monster
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after the storm
she cracked her door
he held his breath

Virginie Colline is a French translator living in Paris. Her haiku have appeared in The Asahi Haikuist Network, The Mainichi Daily News, Boston Literary Magazine, Notes from the Gean, Haiku Journal and StepAway Magazine, among others.

These poems were originally published in Kitchen, issue 8