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Kevin Smith’s ‘NIGHT HERON UNDER A CRESCENT MOON’
from Another Day
Japanese wood-block print, Ohara Koson, 1877-1945One could easily miss it. A small
gallery on a back street of this sprawling
city barely declares itself.
Inside, the lights dull to a fog
of yellow, the prints set back behind
plate glass, framed by dark timber.
A woman comes from another room,
draws my attention to a sign that tells
what I must pay in yen and takes
my money. When I turn she’s gone:
silence had erased her. And no one else
is here. My eyes adjust to the low
light and I realise now the lack
of noise, how cushioned the air behind
two sets of doors I’d passed through. Suddenly
I’m all there is of me. Drawn into
these prints, and out of my time, there’s only
birds now. A heron among the reeds
stands on one leg, her head settled
on a plump breast as if she feigned
sleep. She’s deep inside a world
that could not be without her. A shallow
stream pools around her, a crescent
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Shots from the Chamber: An anthology of poems bygd the Chamber Poets
192 pages, Paperback
Published July 1, 2016
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President: Leanne Mumford
Leanne Mumford is an Australian writer and photographer who enjoys practising her crafts wherever she goes. A keen traveller, Leanne’s haiku often reveal a strong sense of place. Since 2012 more than 200 of her haiku, plus haiga and haibun, have appeared in various Australian and international journals and anthologies. Her haiku ‘wind song’ won a Touchstone Award for Individual Poems 2019. Leanne is a co-founder of the Haiku Down Under conference, first held in October 2022 and currently being organised for August 2024. She convenes the Gadigal Ginko casual events in Sydney. Her personal website is lemumford.id.au
Vice-President: Rob Scott
Rob Scott began his haiku journey while living in Tokyo in the mid-90s where he became a member of the MIFA haiku circle. After writing haiku for almost 20 years, he released his first two collections, Out of Nowhere and Down to the Wire, both published by Red Moon Press (2016). In 2014, Rob com