sunshine doubles
your house number
as if I could forget
Author: Rachel McAlpine
Help
it’s all wrong
fairies
on stilts
Walking
walking over the healthy hill
saving the life of living
in my life
Summer
we kissed in the sea —
now sand is smiling
in the carpet
haiku by rachel mcalpine CC BY 2.0 photo of Oriental Bay, Wellington, by David Leverton CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Furry
Furry
A furry butterfly
alights and burns
her tongue.
Poem by Rachel McAlpine, CC BY-NC 2.0, photo by Toshihiro Gamo, CC BY 2.0
Personal
and everyone had a sticky
floaty flimsy short-term shadow
trying to lose the sun
poem and photo rachel mcalpine CC BY 2.0
Azaleas
azaleas
red hot cinders
firing up the hill
Poem by Rachel McAlpine CC BY-NC
Photo by Guilhem Vellut CC BY 2.0: Azalea Festival at Shiofune Kannon-ji, Ome
Heaven
a silky sweet overhead jelly—
yes, they had sky over Beijing
and Delhi, too
poem by rachel mcalpine, photo vicki buck, both CC BY 2.0
Suntrunks
a photo of sunshine
see that bright shiny lightness?
that was before your time
photo and poem by rachel mcalpine CC BY 2.0
Shiny
Shiny
The last rays of the sun
polish that old lady’s
lips
Poem by Rachel McAlpine CC BY-NC 2.0, photo by Gideon on Flickr CC BY 2.0
Poems in the wild—Rachel McAlpine 