A Haiku for the New Year: “January” by Janine Sowerby
January —
a trail of pine needles
litters the floor
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First published in Yellow Moon (Australia), Issue 19, Winter 2006
Reproduced here with permission.
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On December 27, I featured Janine Sowerby’s We Children, one of my favourite poems centered on the NZ summer. Today I feature another of Janine’s works, the haiku “January.” I have always felt it captures the sense of the ending of the twelve days of Christmas, which also brings the end of celebration and for many a return to work. I can think of nothing better to feature on the Monday immediately following Twelfth Night.
As mentioned on December 27, Janine is a friend and and fellow poet and writer, working across a range of media. Janine’s poetry and short fiction has been published and anthologized in NZ and overseas.
