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Samuelowicz's Haiku
ksamuelowicz@mail.optusnet.com.au
self portrait with sand: postcards from various places - Post Pressed, Flaxton, 1999. 118 pages.
noticing the view, haiku & other poems - Post Pressed, Flaxton, 1999. 46 pages.
bawdy per verse & irreverent - edited by john knight & katherine samuelowicz, illustrations from the figure by brenda lewis. Post Pressed, Flaxton, 1999. 115 pages.
sleeping suburbs apart: conversations with ex-husbands and lovers - Post Pressed, Flaxton, 2005, 70 pages.
"each in own future: 55 tanka & unrelated randomly placed photographs from many places" - DVD, published by Post Pressed: Teneriffe, Australia, 2007.
we made each other up: tanka, haibun & haiku - Published by PostPress, Brisbane, Australia, 2011
cold
night moth
on the window
clings to brightness
a
gust of wind
yesterday's headlines
fly across the road
sun
fretting through branches
on her skin
moving tattoo
walking
along the beach
my shadow
still young
high
noon
our scaled down shadows
merge
steam
clears
in bathroom mirror
hips nipples lips reassemble
picnic-
jacaranda
blossoms
in the salad bowl
the
affair over
polite eyes worn out words
sameness of the grass
sleeping
suburbs apart
listen
trees tell each other stories
city
gardens
two drinks later
summer sun still lingers
flick
of fire
flick of tongue -
winter night
under
shower
sun hardly touches my breasts -
autumn again
virtual
flowers
on a windy night
computer humming
under
the airport clock
he asks her
time
reading
glasses collide -
first kiss
in
close embrace
stunted shadows
cling to our feet
walking
along the lake
my shadow
a blacker patch of water
sky
stained red
again
which way didn't you come
filling
the
wine glass
my face
at
the waterhole
tourists and one giraffe
pissing
Skeleton
Cost
wind plays on
beer bottles & seals' skulls
in
the silence
of the desert night
...one mosquito
...
now on the floor
clothes empty of
arms legs breasts
...one
more drink
twilight carrying
the world away
thunder
-
dog and rain
rush in
dusk
upturned
crescent moon
holding the rest of the moon
autumn
mist
under my chestnut tree
other lovers kiss
on
the verandah
flowers in bloom
i take longer to shower
after
summer storm
a moon
in each puddle
my
book
on the bookshop shelf
i feel like someone else
caught
in the lake water
my corrugated face
moonglazed
night
visiting house after house
my shadow
shadow
of a butterfly
on the curtain moving --
colourless
under
shower
the red glow of winter sun
on shampoo bottles
mexican
wave
trees start swaying
one by one
early
start
dust on the windscreen
turns pink
only
the sound
waiting for the ocean
to become visible
how
the trees have grown
... still your voice
can stop my heart
for
a brief moment
on my lips his kiss
lingers
moon
shaped lamps
at the end of the street
moon
first
reluctant
jacaranda blossoms -
another october
sun sinks into the hills
my shadow
one with darkness
winter
funeral
heavy coats
no warmth in embraces
night swim-
into my empty arms
moon falls
at the car park
as we say goodbye
a swirl of old papers
looking at
travel agent's window
spring again
westerlies
and your kisses
… I put balm
on my lips
winter
cemetery
no footprints around
this grave
cold
evening
my hands
warming each other
winter
car park
graffiti swear
from windscreens
twilight
under
NO STANDING sign
two girls kiss
sudden breeze wrinkled stars in the puddle
winter bruised skies the words I don’t say
storm crinkling sound of a power line
getting
dark
still visible
your shadow next to mine
in
a box
in my sister’s place
my first marriage
cooler wind a roving boat cuts through setting sun
flying
home
for a moment
clouds one with their shadows
driving
to yoga class
squeezed between two buildings
red sunrise
afternoon
breeze
sudden pink
of galahs
ferry wash now only one water dragon clings to rocks
leaves
falling ~
so many new graves
around my mum’s
new
season girls
on the campus
poinciana red again
long
pauses between words
palm fronds
making striped light