Aftermath
I.
My steps chase the slick
rain from mirrored stones, storm
shimmers found and lost.
II.
Cardinal passes,
wing shadow descends to cool
bricks, the waning red.
III.
Black and grey wing has
lost a feather to these stones;
small thunder passing.
…..
The haiku and artwork are from the book Haiku for the Journey by Cynthia Hahn and Illustrated by Monique Loubet (Finishing Line Press), and can be found at https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/haiku-for-the-journey-by-cynthia-hahn-illustrated-by-monique-loubet/
Cynthia T. Hahn is the author of Outside-In-Side-Out (Finishing Line Press, 2010) and Coïncidence(s), bilingual self-translated, with illustrations by Monique Loubet (alfAbarre Press, Paris, 2014). Professor of French at Lake Forest College, IL, she has taught creative writing since 1990 and has published over a hundred poems in journals and anthologies.
About the artist: Monique Loubet, French painter and illustrator, first studied acrylic painting at Anderson College, IN, after which she returned to France to study lithography and linocut printmaking at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. As part of the “Groupe des peintres du Marais”, her tableaux have featured in many solo and group shows, including the Salon d’automne at the Grand Palais.
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