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
Haiku
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
Dandelion city
dandelion
popping the pavement—
gold star gone rogue
haiku rachel mcalpine CC BY 2.0, photo Kleuske CC BY-SA 3.0
Evening rhododendron
Evening rhododendron
Swollen rhododendron:
fat white light-bulb
burning out
Poem by Rachel McAlpine CC BY-NC 2.0
Photo by Christoph Zurniedin CC BY 2.0
Almost
sunlight
on pohutukawa puddles—
almost home
photo & haiku by rachel mcalpine CC BY 2.0
Artist
when you loved me
you painted me —
weed-flower in bright glass
poem and photo by rachel mcalpine CC BY 2.0
Meticulous
meticulous
my ice cream moustache
you lick it off
poem + photo rachel mcalpine CC-BY 2.0
Coffee
Your coffee
frothing in a lucky cup —
drink me!
photo + haiku by rachel mcalpine CC BY-NC 2.0
Aphantasia
Aphantasia
My brain works
with grey shapes heaving
and words building, building.
Poem and photo by Rachel McAlpine CC BY-NC 2.0
Shell
Shell
Blue shell of a sky
sitting upstairs like a sunhat
waiting for its poem
Poem and photo by Rachel McAlpine CC BY-NC 2.0
Poems in the wild—Rachel McAlpine 