Melissa Dennison

Melissa Dennison is a writer of haiku, poetry and flash fiction. Her work emerges from the everyday and lived experience (in the main). Sometimes she is given to flights of fancy. Follow her on X (@MelissaDen95756)

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► Melissa Dennison's microchap & (selected) poems are available below. Download the PDF by clicking the title.

Origami Microchap with Selected Poems

A Prayer of Birds

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Cover image from author

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on top
of the telegraph pole
jackdaws inspect
the wood

magpie…
a splash of ocean
on her wing
(Blue, A Humana Obscura Anthology, 2025)

lifting the blind
bird song rushes in.

blue skies
the shadow of a raptor
on ice
(Blue, A Humana Obscura Anthology, 2025)

every morning
at this time: a robin
on the washing line

rhythm section
the drums and rattles
of a flicker’s call

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