Two Fat Spaniels

by Michael Dylan Welch and Amelia Fielden

Written on 15 July 2011 on the ferry from Anacortes, Washington to Sidney, British Columbia. Winner of an honourable mention in the 2011 Haiku Poets of Northern California rengay contest. First published in Mariposa #26, Spring/Summer 2012, page 31. Also published in Amelia Fielden’s Conversations in Tanka, Port Adelaide, Australia: Ginninderra Press, 2014, page 118.

weekend getaway—

the smell of the sea

at the ferry dock Michael

in the queue a woman

drenched in Diorissimo Amelia

laundry day—

she calls my dirty socks

toxic Michael

grey smoke belching

from lumber mill chimneys—

rain in the pines Amelia

a picture of roses

at the olfactory museum Michael

a lavender border

along the wedding chapel path

two fat spaniels Amelia