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Catherine Mair                     

Catherine is chairwoman of the Katikati Haiku Pathway Focus Committee and is very occupied with a new surge of activity on the pathway. Three more boulders have been inscribed with apposite haiku, and verse on the original 24 boulders has been re-painted (there are now 30 engraved boulders). Information panels and new signs are in progress. Part of the land on which the pathway stands was Catherine's family farm. She was born in the homestead next door to where she now lives, and married on the lawn there. Catherine was awarded a Queen's Service Medal (QSM) for services to poetry and the community in 2008. Contact Catherine.

  
above ancient
        fortifications
        transmitting antenna
       
     after your
            telephone call
                        the rain
  
  
     just the retriever's 
     nose above the stick -
     flight of wading birds     
  
  
      wrecked ship
    beside the memorial
    a starfish  
  
  
     midnight thirst
    drinking from cupped hands
    - a moth's closed wings 
  
  
    in her bedroom
        all her lovers
   only photographs     
  
  
  on the front lawn
    trying to fly his kite -
    the wind won't            
  
  
    tartan umbrella
    my own bright roof
    in the alleyway       
  
  
    hurting me more
            the departure
                of my son's lover    
   
  
    sheltering also
    this sandfly
    on my hand      
                                     

Publication Notes:

above ancient: RAW NerVZ (Canada), Vol. 4 No. 3.
after your: Azami 48.
just the retriever's: ibid.
wrecked ship: Azami 54.
midnight thirst: ibid.
in her bedroom: paper wasp (Australia), spring 2000.
on the front lawn: paper wasp, autumn 1998.
tartan umbrella: ibid.
hurting me more: ibid.
sheltering also: An Exchange of Gifts (NZPS anthology), 2001.

                                                                                         

                                                                                           Haiku by Catherine Mair, Katikati Haiku Pathway (Sandra Simpson photo).

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