Prune Juice Journal, 2021

back to normal

traffic congestion
finding no space
to reflect

crossroads winds
never coming back

display window
all the mannequins
with masks

city drifter
the close of a song
from an upstairs window

sidewalk flowers
tracing the past

intersection
between then and now
dust and ash


Hifsa Ashraf & John Hawkhead
Prune Juice, November 2021

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root canal 

the dentist digs deeper 

into my past

Prune Juice, issue 35

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berry picking . . . 

a refugee mother’s hands 

furl unfurl 

Ramadan moon 

I make peace 

with the inner demons 

also on The Haiku Foundation - per diem/haiku of the day 30th November 2022

displacement camp 

a Syrian boy befriends 

the snowman

Prune Juice Journal, issue 34

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night drizzle . . .
an uninterrupted lullaby
of the refugee mother

pulling back
her black hijab
evening storm

fading out
the muezzin’s call––
torrential rain

Prune Juice Journal, Issue 33