Grant D. Savage
Grant Savage is a naturalist, poet, and photographer living in Ottawa. His haiku, tanka, and senryu have been published in anthologies and journals in North America. In 1994 he published a book of renku, The Swan's Wings, with Ottawa poet Ruby Spriggs, and in 1999, won first place in the Drevniok Award. In 2006, his collection of haiku and tanka, Their White with Them, was shortlisted for the Lampman-Scott Poetry Award. Recently he co-edited the conference anthology for Haiku North America 2009. The following come from a series shortlisted for the 2009 Tree Origami Crane Poetry Contest.
Inadvertently seated where the birdman feeds them the madman wonders why the ducks don't understand A swallowtail nectars balanced on honeysuckle how I clung to you when we made love and when we parted Newspapers blowing across a field black and white print as abstract an image as yesterday Spring snow unnoticed the cardinal pair wings spread in their moment of melting Where someone drew it in window frost the moon and I wear for each other the exact same smiley face One last smash against his reflection the cardinal calling it quits breaks into song Trumpet lilies in an art deco vase I open the window so at least their perfume can reach the sun I was wrong it wasn't the north wind but winter whistling in on hundreds of goldeneye wings |