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Owen Bullock            

Owen has been writing haiku since reading winterSPIN, 1999. He has published haiku, tanka, haibun and linked verse. He is a past co-editor of Kokako, New Zealand's only specialist haiku magazine. He also writes longer poems and is now Associate Editor of Poetry NZ. He was born and bred in Cornwall, but has been resident in New Zealand for 18 years and lives in New Plymouth. Contact Owen.


hopping up the stairs
the chorus of
frog-catchers
  
in the flower
arrangement
her beauty
  
  
missing you
less than I thought -
birdsong at dusk
  
  
Singapore sundial -
‘what thou seekest
is a shadow'
  
  
in the foreground
of the mountain
small clover flowers
  
  
just before
I lock the door
suddenly afraid
  
  
the rain
heavier
than tears
  
  
restless night -
van Gogh's stars
in the sky
  
  
stormy day
someone is picking up
seaweed
  
  
reflection in the bath
my head around
the pudenda


 

Publication notes:
hopping up the stairs: bottle rockets #9, US.
in the flower: paper wasp, spring 2002, Australia.
missing you: Presence #17, UK.
Singapore sundial - : Kokako 1, NZ.
in the foreground: South by South East 10:2, US.
just before: Presence #22.
the rain: Presence #28.
restless night - : bottle rockets #10.
stormy day: Presence #29.
reflection in the bath: Kokako 3.