Debbie Strange Prairie Interludes - Snapshot Press · 2020. 8. 16. · the steady thrum of katydids...
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AcknowledgementsThanks are due to the editors and publishers of the following publications in which present or earlier versions of these poems previously appeared:Acorn, Creatrix, The Haiku Calendar 2019 (Snapshot Press, 2018), Haiku Canada Review, The Heron’s Nest, Kokako, The Mamba, Mariposa, Modern Haiku, Otata, Shamrock, Stardust Haiku, and The Unnecessary Invention of Punctuation (New Zealand Poetry Society, 2018).
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In memory of my father, Ewen MacKenzie, who taught me to love the land
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Prairie Interludes
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a wet spring dark furrows seeded with stars
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night runes a scattering of porcupine quills
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rangeland webs of rain connect the thistles
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thunderheads above the prairie red-tailed hawks
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earthworm the raised shadows of my scars
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boundary lines every fence post topped with a baseball cap
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solar flares a spill of buttercups in the meadow
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rusted rails a meadowlark with the sun in its throat
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dusk-to-dawn the low anthems of great grey owls
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porch swing songs where we least expect them
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empty well the steady thrum of katydids
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cloudless sky a pelican’s pouch full of light
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autumn sunrise a beaver’s fur glistens with aspen dust
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dandelion seeds I smooth mother’s hair across the pillow
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fading dreams . . . the golden smoke of tamaracks
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harvesting night an arc of moondust from the auger
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prize pumpkins our hayrack buckles with light
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washboard road every now and again not
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fog weaving between fence posts a coyote’s song
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antelope the humming of wind in barbed wire
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prairie dusk the last braid of geese comes undone
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frozen trough I cup the warm breath of my horse
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rimed fence the wind and cattle change direction
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snowy field the owls we thought were stones
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Award Credits“antelope”Honourable Mention, World Haiku Competition 2015
“cloudless sky”Editors’ Choices, The Heron’s Nest 18:2, 2016
“dandelion seeds”Selected Haiku, Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum Haiku Contest 2018
“fading dreams”Runner-up, The Haiku Calendar Competition 2018
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“fog weaving”Honourable Mention, Griffin-Farlow Haiku Award 2015
“frozen trough”First Place, Sharpening the Green Pencil Haiku Contest 2019
“prairie dusk”Commended, Iris Haiku Contest 2019
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“prize pumpkins”Honourable Mention, International Haiku Contest on the Theme of the Gourds 2019
“rimed fence”Honourable Mention, The British Haiku Society Awards 2017
“snowy field”Honourable Mention, Irish Haiku Society International Haiku Competition 2017
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