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Zoe Grant

5 haiku


haunted house
a baby ghost
creeps in

tooth fairy
out of coins
again

cherry petals
hot steam rising
from my tea

high in the branches
an old crow feeds her babies—
broken trampoline

snap pea
a tūī’s
broken wing


Zoe Grant is a 7-year-old poet from Auckland. She won first prize at the 2021 NZ Poetry Society International Haiku Competition (School/Junior) and is the co-author/illustrator of Bat Girl, and co-editor of Chalk on the Walk Haiku and Chalk on the Walk Monoku. Zoe enjoys ballet, singing, drawing, writing, and hosting rengay sessions and attending haiku conferences with her mother. You can find out more about her work here.