Painting by Nigel Gillings
The Book Eater’s Haiku
helter-skelter notes
a poem long forgotten
on her mental shelf
he’s sitting nearby
his maroon leather bookmark
the tongue of a snake
dusty yellow book
the evaporating scent
of a sepia dream
Virginie Colline lives and writes in Paris. Her poems have appeared in The Scrambler, Notes from the Gean, Prune Juice, The Mainichi, Frostwriting, Prick of the Spindle, Mouse Tales Press, StepAway Magazine, BRICKrhetoric, Overpass Books, Dagda Publishing, Silver Birch Press and Yes, Poetry, among others.
