C.X. Turner

Margins

I found the pond in a library book—its stillness framed in ink: bramble-shadowed, leaf-littered, rich with wriggle and rot. I must have read that page a hundred times. Something in it stayed, like moss under stone.

Years passed. Rented rooms, shared gardens, nowhere to stay still. And then this space: a patch of wild tucked beside an old orchard, already half-feral with nettles and windfall. I shaped a pond from memory. Left the rest to fill itself.

spring thaw

a flicker of life

in the murk

how little it takes
for something to return

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About the Author

C.X. Turner lives in Warwickshire, UK. A haiku and tanka poet, she is the author of evergreen: a collection of haiku, senryu and tanka (Alba Publishing, 2024) and anemones: a mini haiku chapbook (Yavanika Press, 2023), and the co-author of Building Sandcastles: A Book of Short Poems (Literary Revelations, 2023).

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