Sara Winteridge

a laptop gnat
looking for the light
in a Bergman film

Notes from the Gean 2013

the news
no one wanted to hear
drumming rain

Modern Haiku 44.1, 2013

wounded sky – the apothecary fly returns to base camp

Bones #2,  2013

abortion clinic –
they name a blind fish
from a deepwater cave

Bones #2, 2013

excavating – a seam of roman noses in the dream trench

Bones #3, 2013

mapped in magenta
the isthmus and inlets
crossing her legs

Frogpond, 36:1, 2013

storm cliffs –
the remains of a fish
in a stone

Heron's Nest, 2013/14

asthma –
the tight whorl
of fiddleheads

Heron's Nest #16:1 2014

this same starlight fell
face-down in a flooded trench –
bayonet rain

 Prune Juice, #12 2014

dark moon
a gang of street boys
luring the stray

 Prune Juice, #10 2013

how quietly
you crept in –
wild violets

Blithe Spirit, Volume 23, Number 3, August 2013

low tide – pocketing the keeper stone

kernelsonline, #1 2013

caesura
–
frozen in the stream
the stream

 cattails #1 2014

sea glass –
even my memory of him
worn smooth

Presence # 48 June 2013

crumbling cliffs –
sand martins in and out
of the eocene

British Haiku Society Members' Anthology, Time, 2013

white blossom falling     a spindrift      a sea

Modern Haiku

orange blossom –
lifting her niqab
just enough

Modern Haiku

honeydew – my cleavage ends in a melon seed

 Blithe Spirit

collecting driftwood –
on the heels of the boxer dog
sea foam

Kernels

long grass – unwittingly I transfuse a tick

Blithe Spirit

gorse blossoms
on the borrow pits –
wild horses

Snapshot Press Calendar

idle talk – the fat peony collapses

cathedral rain – a sparrow in the gargoyle’s cheek

Blithe Spirit

just a shell
this bombed out
child

water lily
the red coiled stems
of coupling dragonflies

a breeze – the bamboo spreads rumours

unblinking
the toad who lives
in the privy

Basho Ki

darkening sky
the weight of the storm
in thunder flies

Snapshot Press Calendar

first frost –
the thrush brings a snail
to the anvil stone

Heron’s Nest

full moon –
newts glide through
the Sea of Tranquility

Frogpond