C.X. Turner
Unanswered
Each step stirs leaves in crisp whispers, the murmur of practiced words. I walk farther than usual, exhaling into questions I’m unready to answer.
At the village pond, a ripple skews fiery reflections; thoughts scatter like startled birds. For a moment, the air steadies, and I hold onto this thin breath before moving on.
by the path
reeds bow into shadows
shapes I’m only
beginning
to understand
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).
Perhaps listening, not merely hearing, and seeing, not merely looking, can bring us closer to the unanswerable questions. Well done.