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no more peacocks
the girls bring home the haiku
instead of them

Alan Summers
Swindon Festival of Literature (9th May 2010)
in response to the last time I visited Lower Shaw Farm, Swindon U.K.


the morning star
through the caravan skylight
a peacock’s scream

Alan Summers
*  'The New Haiku' Snapshot Press, 2002,  ISBN 1-903543-03-7
*  First Australian Anthology (October) 1999 http://users.mullum.com.au/jbird/as?.html
*  Tinywords  April 2001
*  Blithe Spirit  (British Haiku Society journal) June 1998
(written Lower Shaw Farm, Swindon 1998 - Brian Tasker workshop)
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