Little Matters: a gathering of 89 haiku & senryu
Andrew Lansdown
Picaro Press (Warners Bay, NSW), 2009
(chapbook, 28 pages)
ISBN 978-1-920957-85-8
Back Cover Blurb
I admire greatly the way in which Lansdown’s world is full of the beauty, intensity and wonder of natural significances: birds, trees, colours, sounds, their permutations and human import. Such things are a touch of the eternal we can all experience. – Rod Moran
Eight haiku from Little Matters
The polished surface—
a white egret hesitates
to put its foot down.
© Andrew Lansdown
In the stoneware bowl
after the small bird’s bathing—
rainwater wobbling.
© Andrew Lansdown
A little breeze—
and lollipop kisses from
the red poppies.
© Andrew Lansdown
Mist on the hill …
recalling the urge to lift
her bridal veil.
© Andrew Lansdown
Like a turtledove’s
throat in the heat—the infant’s
fontanelle, pulsing.
© Andrew Lansdown
She looks at him
as he looks at her … too late
to look away.
© Andrew Lansdown
Seashell, haiku—
both offer a hermit crab
a place to live.
© Andrew Lansdown
Flying off, the seeds
of the hakea nut leave
an imprint of wings.
© Andrew Lansdown