Presence, Britain's leading independent haiku journal, 2021

Bone Dance

onyx floor
all the demons
under my feet

tapping out the steps
of a danse macabre

epiphysis
reshifting
my axis

coiled into
the skull chamber
a blood oath

passing on
the endless vendetta

at the cliff edge
grasping the chalice
on an altar of salt

Hifsa Ashraf and John Hawkhead
Presence, issue #71

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morning mist 

the low flight 

of a white raven 

alpine moon 

brewing more coffee 

for the night


Presence, Issue #71, November 2021

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fireside story
a raven breaks the silence
at the end

Presence, Issue#70, July 2021