3 Haiku by Julie Emerson

1. 
mosses

drinking melted icicle

in the rain gutter                       


2.
raindrops sliding

down arbutus limbs . . .

I’m awake


3.
seagulls gather

a big audience

of pink clouds


Bionote

Julie Emerson has published books about war, love, plants, birds, and art— her most recent are Twenty Seven Stings (New Star Books) and The Herons of Stanley Park (with photographer Martin Passchier). Her haiku are in anthologies, and she won the Vancouver International Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Competition in 2013. She writes and paints in Vancouver and on Mayne Island.