Five Haiku

laundry day
raindrops drying
along the spider’s line

 

the cat under the bush
spying on a sparrow
a none-of-your-business glance

 

at a loss for words
a distant honk
ends my sentence

 

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grey clouds
the ruins of a castle
built in the air

 

silent fountain
the church gargoyles
give voice to the rain

 

 

Virginie Colline is a French translator living in Paris. Her poems have appeared in The Electronic Monsoon Magazine, Prune Juice, Spinozablue, Indian Review and Inner Art Journal, among others.

These poems were originally published in Frostwriting, issue 8 and Fri Haiku, våren 2012.