Alan Peat
Outlived Son
She points to the photo and tells me this—he was cupping the snow to keep it white and it ran, out of colour, right through his fingers.
almost spring— warmed ice weeps from willow branches
About the Author
Alan Peat is a UK-based poet and author. His work has featured in Frogpond, Mayfly, Heliosparrow, The Heron’s Nest, Presence, and Hedgerow, among others. He won a Touchstone Award for Individual Haibun 2022, was runner-up in the 2021 British Haiku Society’s Ken and Norah Jones Haibun Award, and was joint third-place winner in the 2022 Time Haiku ekphrastic haibun contest.