year after year
perched on a bar stool at Pelligrini’s
watching my reflection age
About this Rooku
I enjoy writing haiku and rooku because of its clarity, simplicity of form and the distillation of a moment or an image into three short lines. My rooku in this exhibition is about how places we visit
regularly contain traces of our earlier, younger selves.
About Angela Smith
I am a Melbourne lawyer and poet. My poetry and haiku have been published in a variety of poetry journals and literary magazines including Meanjin, Quadrant, Hobo, Arena Magazine, New England Review and Poetrix. I have been the recipient of two Young Adult Fiction Residencies at Varuna - The Writers’ House.
