Wilderspool Causeway

I am grateful that ‘The News from Schiphol Airport’ has been published in Alan Summers’ Pan Haiku Review, Issue 3 (p59). This is an open season issue, open to poems of up to ten lines in any form. However, none of the following words could be included: silence, silent, silently, still, stillness, reflection, reflected, old, young, alone, lonely, lone or any variations of those words. You can find out more about Alan Summers in this mini documentary which was featured on PHK (National Japanese Televison). This edition of the Pan Haiku Review includes submission guidelines for Babylon Sidedoor, the Autumn edition, as well as the review section Blōō Outpost, a wide range of poems of up to ten lines and editorial insights throughout on the nature of poetry & prose writing.

The News from Schiphol Airport

Now derisory
is the dividend from labour
as I see the red brick,
read the news from Schiphol Airport,
notice the leaves drift by the river
and mud trodden in the tension of the week,
the sky and stone wall,
the dog in the water

Alex Saynor