Runaway
by Roy Duffield

​oak leaves
smushed underfoot--
no crunch

​black bough
bent low to the ground--
storm clouds

​spring path
alive with birdsong--
severance check

​last of the dew
steams off the fields--
alarm’s off

​undaunted gull
snaps the last crumbs--
receding land

Roy Duffield is a writer, translator, and editor at Anti-Heroin Chic. He has lived in Japan, among other places, and is now “based” loosely in Spain. He is a man of few words, and those words can be read in Akitsu Quaterly, Heliosparrow, Quadrant, Failed Haiku, The Crank, Mamba, postscript, Silver Stork, The Journal of Wild Culture and of course, the world’s oldest, most prestigious publications: his Instagram and Twitter (@drinking_traveller and @drinktraveller).

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