Four Haiku
(i)
(for Robert Grey)
caged by dappled light
unlike Rilke’s beast content
this side of heaven
(ii)
perennial green
ephemeral butterfly
what time’s time enough?
(iii)
red roof in full leaf
sail now grey threatening sky
cry blue land ahoy!
(iv)
in this green waiting
birds trill leaves quiver then time
interjects its train!
Kris Hemensley, “Four Haiku” text and audio from My Life in Theatre, River Road Press, Audio CD & Booklet, 2009, by permission of River Road Press and the poet. Copyright © 2009 by Kris Hemensley.
Source:
My Life in Theatre
(River Road Press, 2009)