By: Christina Chin

unbuttoning a red jacket
ladybird

piercing drones
a twilight cicada keeps company

buzzing around the fish stall
summer flies

dodging the fan’s breeze
a fly swatter

a falling prey
rolls into the antlion’s trap

crumbs laden convoy
ant trail

night garden
a spider accelerates bobbing

(꧁꧂)

Christina Chin is an award winning painter, author and haiku poet. 1st prize winner of the 34th Annual Cherry Blossom Sakura Festival Haiku Contest – 1st prize winner in the 8th Setouchi Matsuyama Photohaiku Contest. She has been published in numerous journals, anthologies, including Japan’s prestigious Haikukai Magazine.