On the Dewy Path
by Michael Dylan Welch, Shelley
Baker-Gard, Deborah P Kolodji,
Kath Abela Wilson, Jacquie Pearce,
and Angela J. Naccarato
Written at the Haiku Society of America national meeting on 14 August 2016 at the Portland Japanese Garden in Portland, Oregon. First published in Kokako #26, April 2017, page 26.
garden stroll—
the sun on her cheeks
comes and goes Michael
waiting
on the dewy path
at
the tea house Shelley
frayed cord
ties a bamboo fence
the creep of moss Debbie
a
golden koi dips
into
its shadow Kath
stone by stone
the many colors
of shoes Jacquie
a
mountain of azaleas
borrowing
the view Angela
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