Peg Duthie

Taiwanese American. Unitarian Universalist. Shares an old house with a motorcycle mechanic and a cabbage-devouring dog.

Books Published: Measured Extravagance (Upper Rubber Boot, 2012; http://tinyurl.com/MeasEx)

outside the café
wind rattles the tables
the spider spins on

creasing the statement
into a sparrow
last mortgage payment

free from school
the chalk dances
across the sidewalk

a crumpled ribbon
snakes through the rust
the blush of dead ships

the hem of my dress
too wet for the wind

kittens nesting
within a heap of postcards
one man's garbage

Credits: "outside the café"- Kloštranski haiku zbornik 2009 / The Kloštar Ivanić 2009 Haiku Miscellany (Insula Ivanich, 2009); "free from school" - tinywords 10.2 (2010); "the hem of my dress" - tinywords 10.1 (2010); "creasing the statement" - unFold (April 2013); "a crumpled ribbon" - Scifaikuest 13 (August 2006); Dwarf Stars 2007 (Gromagon Press, 2007); moonset (Fall 2008); "kittens nesting" - 7x20 (September 2013).