A Haiku for the New Year: “January” by Janine Sowerby

January —
a trail of pine needles
litters the floor

© Janine Sowerby

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First published in  Yellow Moon (Australia), Issue 19, Winter 2006

Reproduced here with permission.

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On December 27, I featured Janine Sowerby’s We Children, one of my favourite poems centered on the NZ summer. Today I feature another of Janine’s works, the haiku “January.” I have always felt it captures the sense of the ending of the twelve days of Christmas, which also brings the end of celebration and for many a re...