Ron C. Moss is a Tasmanian writer, artist, and poet who works in most Japanese forms. His haikus and haiga have won numerous awards and have been published in periodicals and books such as Yellow Moon, Heron’s Nest, Frogpond, World Haiku Review, Red Moon’s Contemporary Haibun Anthology, World Haiku Review, and Paper Wasp. Ron is a member of Watersmeet Haiku Group, the World Haiku Association, and the World Haiku Club.
Tasmanian poet Ron C. Moss brings our senses into intimate contact with seasonal moments in this series of haiku.
our untold stories are the darkness in a river’s flow
record heat
a soon-to-be-mum
backs into the waves1
bushfire sparks
on a shearwater’s egg
ready to hatch2
first day of autumn
burnt gum leaves
in a rain shower3
drowned trees
their bones tear open
the mist
cold water swim
the tingle of goose bumps
on my sunspots
the laughter
of a kookaburra
on the weather vane
passing car
a tiny hand opens
to the rain4
after the fatal flood
the jacaranda’s purple
saturated in birdsong5
the depth of heat
in the yellow song
of a sunflower6
Reflecting a world where snow no longer arrives, annual migrations fall out of time, yet first blossoms still burst, Seasons, our sixth print edition, moves through three themes: requiem, invitation, and celebration—each a contemplation on the paradoxical ways the seasons now beckon us into intimate relationship.
