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Autumn 2006, vol 4 no 3

HAIKU

Naia

 

storming for days . . .
still, there's something about
the scent of rain
 
   
  Father's hands
the day he carried in
an orphaned pigeon
   
Aurora Borealis . . .
he describes it
without blinking
 
   
  autumn rain . . .
sleeping
where he slept
 
blossom time . . .
she doesn't speak of him
but I know that faraway look
 
   

Naia A fifth generation native Californian, Naia was raised in a country home in the Sacramento farm valley and attended college at California State Polytechnic University (Cal Poly) in San Luis Obispo. Naia's poetry and haiga have appeared world-wide in magazines, books, anthologies, e-journals, and newsletters.