Marie Marshall lives near Dundee in Scotland. She started writing fiction in 2004, in her late forties, and discovered her poetic muse in 2005. Her poems have appeared in many magazines in the UK, and in 2010 her collection Naked in the Sea was published. She is associate editor of the journals Sonnetto Poesia and Canadian Zen Haiku, and editor of the zen space, an online haiku showcase. Marie's website can be found at http://mairibheag.com

Marie Marshall

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Three jisei

what damns my heart
has dammed my sermons –
I am silenced

 

the last shadow
to leave the old house –
I don't look back

 

at honour's call –
the white blossoms make
a perfect pall

Jisei, or death poem, is a poem written by the poet near the time of their own death.