Month: February 2019

The plant. The wall.

Creeping muehlenbeckia on Te Papa wall, Wellington Harbour
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Creeping muehlenbeckia on Te Papa wall, Wellington Harbour
Creeping muehlenbeckia on Te Papa wall, Wellington Harbour

The plant beguiles
the wall. The wall
restyles the plant.

The plant outlines
the wall. The wall
declines the plant.

The plant, the wall
the one, the all.

Your fingers — a haiku

Young man in black robe arranges ferns on the white-painted back of a young Butoh dancer
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Young man in black robe arranges ferns on the white-painted back of a young Butoh dancer
Ikebana friend and Butoh friend preparing for a photo shoot in a Kyoto garden, 1992

your fingers
fronding my spine—
green waters

Haiku written in a workshop at Palmerston North on Valentine’s Day 2019. Poem and photo cc by 2.0 Rachel McAlpine: copy and share as you please, with attribution.