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Summer 2005, vol 3 no 2

Haiku ~ Ella Wagemakers

lunch break---
a carabao
in the mud
	crumb by crumb
	sunlight eats away
	at the frost
pot of rice---
belly-laughing
to work
	open window
	the unfamiliar sound
	of bird wings
only water
between my footprints
and the horizon

Ella Wagemakers was born in the Philippines and now lives in the Netherlands with her husband. She is an English Teacher at the Dutch Police Academy. She received an AB-IS from Manila University in 1983, a 2nd Degree Teaching Diploma in Tilburg in 2001, and a 1st Degree Teaching Diploma (Tilburg) in 2003.

Her essay "A Dutch Journey" was published in Not Home, But Here, an anthology edited by Luisa A. Igloria. So far, she has had a few haiku published online in the Makata International Poetry Journal and other online e-zines. She is working on her first poetry collection.