The Write Stuff home
Showcase of Tasmanian poetry


< Back

Peter Macrow

The Write Stuff vol. 7

6 x 4

  1. 4 poems from trying to be here (chapbook}
  2. 4 poems from Painting on Mirrors (manuscript-in-progress)
  3. 4 short poems from Thuck (manuscript-in-progress)
  4. 4 word pictures
  5. 4 children’s poems
  6. 4 haiku

6.   4 haiku

a mirror tree
growing in the gutter
of the roof

* * * * *

knocking at the door
in frosted glass
my shadow

* * * * *

waves breaking
white on the rocks
of childhood

* * * * *

in the darkness
songs my mother taught me
against the pain


These four haiku were published in Yellow Moon, Famous Reporter and paper wasp.

© Peter Macrow

<< PreviousNext >>