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Sketchbook
Alan Summers, UK
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Haibun
Beyond the
Crow
fading last note
the torresian crow’s sound
a darkening sky
black sky
stars more bright than I've seen before
they shift move vibrate
to suggest something more
it’s my last sighting of Jupiter above Venus
a susurrus of moths
flickers round the fire
and into the night
it's brittle cutting cold
the moon's no longer full
a brutal simplicity of a night beyond the
colour of a crow
woodsmoke embers
spiral towards
the southern cross
quiet and dark
but then a rustle reminds me of the mythical
Dreamtime Dingo
white and feral and imagination lends fear to a
night that will
only
leer at me
it’s an achingly long time before I see a lightening
a quickening that’s the tone of a hurt violet which is the
morning
I rekindle the fire
sunrise burns mist
off pale blue trees
Note: earlier different
versions were published in Paper Wasp,
Queensland, 1997; Azami haiku journal, Osaka,
Japan 1998; Blithe Spirit, June 2004; and
Shamrock Haiku Journal, Irish Haiku Society, Spring
2006
