I have been writing for six years, at first for myself, then in journalism and advertising.  I've come full circle, and once again I write for myself.  My home is a bus where, with my husband and cat, we live as close to self-sufficiently as we can.  To earn a crust we keep bees (we have 200 hives) and I work as a

Quality Manager part-time in Rotorua.

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Kushla Haenen

New Zealand

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four haiku

in the hand

five grasses

already gone to seed

He leaves.

The sun passes

behind a cloud

on the horizon

a yacht

sails against the sky

dead flowers

in a jar

beside her tree

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