Lonnard Dean Watkins lives in Wellington, New Zealand where he works as an IT consultant.

Lonnard has had poetry and haiku published in a number of journals including Heron's Nest and Acorn Haiku Journal.

He is also an artist and has combined both art and poetry in a series of zen paintings and haiga.

Web Site: http://www.oldman.co.nz

Lonnard Dean Watkins

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African Sky

(Pi-Archimedes)

The child cries
Alone
Under the African sky
High above
A man floats in space readying a telescope
To look away from the earth