heatwave
the dragonfly ventilates
its shadow
Francoise Mauriҫe
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A group of haiku will be posted each Monday morning from 6 January 2025 until Issue 14 is complete.

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For Echidna Tracks: Issue 15 Winter/Spring 2025, we invite your best and previously unpublished haiku and senryu on any topic that stirs your imagination. Australia is a society that comprises many environments, cultures, and lifestyles. We welcome diversity in submissions. Please explore our categories for inspiration. If you choose a seasonal reference, it should be compatible with the publication’s Winter/Spring time frame.
The submission period for Issue 15 will be open during April 2025. Please carefully read the guidelines on the Submissions page. Please make your submissions via the Submissions Form.
Anyone can submit work, but as this is a website for the collection of Australian haiku, we are looking for work that comes from an authentic experience of living in or visiting Australia.
We plan to commence publication of Issue 15 on 7 July 2025.
weekday morning—
the usual dogs barking
at their loneliness
John Low
neighbours
rumbling in the dark
bin night
Jahan Tyson
strutting around
the mall entrance
pigeons and teens
Maurice Nevile
drizzling rain on the hospital steps the girl with the teardrop tattoo
Mark Miller
the labyrinth
at the children’s hospital—
life’s twists and turns
Sheila Sondik
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alone in a field
silent prayers
Maeve Archibald
the velvet of moss
her name fills
with morning rain
Gavin Austin
return to country
Grandma’s grave
now has a headstone
Laurel Astle
memorial . . .
a hundred Bathurst blokes
die for Empire
Gerry Jacobson
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