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Summer 2005, vol 3 no 2

Haiku ~ Esther Theiler

first skink of spring
crushed - the dawn
on its silver belly
	ears plastered by the rain
	the dead koala
	its arm still slung over a branch
each Friday on my walk
the cleaner at the window
of the rich house
	thirsty afternoon
	a little less of the sky now
	in my glass
even the new faux Gothic pile
has cracks under the eaves
where baby birds scrabble

Esther Theiler lives on the outskirts of Melbourne in the south of Australia. Her haiku has been published in Simply Haiku, paper wasp, World Haiku Review, Modern Haiku and others and she also writes stories and other forms of poetry.