Ten Haiku Poems from Autumn into Winter
days
shorten
low
sun shouts at my back
protesting
autumn
cool morning mist
waves speak of hot afternoons
a minnow jumps
vee
of geese above
waves
glisten in low sun
–a
feather floats
summer’s
blackberries
cede
the beach brambles to red
–rose
hips
summer-parched fairies
dance in the returning rain
colour leaves with joy
chill early dusk
she shivers, torn stockings
a lone scarlet leaf
dust
of snow
chilled
aspens set to
drop
molten gold
tardy sunrise lines
hillsides with brilliance
―a pledge
rain
clouds thin
mushroom
pickers emerge
as
do their prey
trees
shed gilt edges
spiders,
stinkbugs, feral cats
come
to my window
KB Nelson is a Canadian writer whose poems have appeared in a variety of journals and anthologies including Tiny Spoon , Gyroscope Review, Sea-To-Sky Review, and Polar Borealis. Her chapbook Muse of Natural History was published in June 2021. KB has resided from coast to coast in Canada, in Arizona, and in New Zealand. A graduate of Simon Fraser University’s Southbank writing program, she currently lives, writes and hikes the beaches and forests on the unceded territory of the Sechelt First Nation on B.C.’s Sunshine Coast.
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