Patricia Prime

Lifted

uncertain weather—
in the cut glass vase
artificial flowers

The house stands on a hill, a deck overlooks the town, and from the living room there is a panoramic view of the ocean. Hours have been spent in this bright space where the note of a red velvet chaise lounge bursts among the oak of doors and paneling. All the colours so alive—the black half-Persian cat, silver candlesticks, a stream of vivid paintings on the wall, dark green curtains, glass-fronted bookcases —set alight by the clarity of a crimson couch.

tea steeping—
a new poetry book
open on the table

Between the booming sea in the distance and the occasional chirp of crickets, there is a silence in which questions rest, stresses dissipate, worries disappear. It’s the silence of solitude, deep and wonderful.

on the rocky shore
fossicking for driftwood
the sculptor

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About the Author

Patricia Prime is co-editor of the NZ haiku journal Kokako. She was the reviews/interviews editor of Haibun Today and presently is a reviewer for Atlas Poetica, Takahe, and other journals. Besides reviewing, she writes traditional verse, renga, linked verse, tanka prose, haibun, cherita, and limericks, as well as collaborative verse and renga with a variety of poets.