Haiku

Hemapriya Chellappan

 

whale tooth to be told

 

if only
I were an old mansion
poison ivy

 

abandoned castle the plant kingdom

 

the crawl space
between nightmares
worm moon

 

a patch in the sky tailorbird

 

barbed wire fence riddle of the crows

 
 

Hemapriya Chellappan is a haikai poet and an artist who resides in Pune, India. She took to Japanese literary short forms in the summer of 2019. Ever since her works have been published in various international print and online journals.