in and out
the butterfly plays
with the cage

**Published in 'A Hundred Gourds 1.1' (December 2011)
 
the fragrance 
from a petromax lantern --
an old hut in winter


third day of December
the same black crow
on my garden wall

-Issue 37: May- June 2011

***Published in Mango Moons- Contemporary World Haiku (Muse India)- an initiative by Kala Ramesh.