Haiku - Walking by Lake Ginninderra

Lucy Alexander

Walking beside

Water

Tasting of light

Wagtail call

A crack in the

Quiet

Night swan

Neck dripping

Sunlight

Peewit

Black Voice

White call

Passing family

Polkadot

Voices

An Ibis stretches her neck

And flies

To yesterday

Eastern froglet

Reaches up with

Her tiny mossy voice

Lucy is a resident of Gorman + Ainslie Arts Centre in Canberra. ‘Strokes of Light’ (2020) is her third collection. Her prose poetry earned her the 2022 CAPO Cook Creative Writing Award as well as being shortlisted for the Word Prose Poetry Award, 2022.