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YOUR CART

The Lure of Ekphrasis

by Diana Webb
A card sent long ago, from the country of eight islands, stands, sole occupant of her otherwise non-festive window sill. Exquisite gauzy paper evokes a mist through which she can make out a white peaked mountain, a vermilion disc of light and a branch of fragile blossom beckoning. ‘Take them’ whispers a voice through a distant sound of bells, ‘take them for your journey at the turn of the year and they will bring you through.’


She begins her quest as she floats through space. ‘My name is Basho’ says the small man at her side. ‘Now onwards through the days and months, the best work lies ahead.’


She climbs the mountain, hands the poem to her companion.


reverberate 
with the sound of snow
an egret rises 


She touches the vermilion disc, hands the poem to her companion.


fingerprinted 
with the rising sun 
a cherry petal


She stretches out her arm for the bough of blossom, not quite reaching it and hands the poem to her companion.


ephemeral 
as cloud 
this too shall pass


He smiles and nods. ‘Welcome’ he says.  ‘The years, this way and that, are pilgrims, too, through the enigma beyond our grasp of never-ending time. Welcome.’

Diana Webb has been writing haiku for 30 years. She edits the print journal 'Time Haiku ' and is occasionally guest editor for the online haibun journal 'Drifting Sands'. Her four haibun collections have been published by Hub Editions and Alba Publishing, and her most recent collection 'White Coat on Peg,' which includes the best of her haiku from the last 20 years. Her most recent haibun , is published by The Magic Pen Press. Diana has won both the haibun award from the British Haiku Society, of which she is an active member, and the Genjuan haibun contest. 
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