These haiku were published in my first poetry collection; Watching Pilgrims Watching Me (Pardalote Press, Tasmania, 2006). To understand the background of the writing and publishing of the collection, you can read an interview between Jodie and Northern Territory poet Kaye Aldenhoven here.
I pretend to sleep beads fall into his lap as he prays empty bottles offering a white scarf friends farewell winter moon why do you sit in the midday sky? almost there thin crisp cool fills my lungs on the tea caravan trail stones rubbed smooth my bare feet last light a monk bunches maize in the stone courtyard my best eye following the very last black-necked crane serendipity
Thanks shutonglifo from Pixabay for this great image.
Jodie Hawthorne 