early evening
in the Friend's graveyard
short shadows

garden
  song
    before
      wet
        blossom
          morning

Published (2020) seashores Volume 5 page 86

lockdown heatwave
in each room
a fly

how quickly
the sakura blossom
turns to bird poo

the striped sound
of a
woodpecker

Published (2022) seashores Volume 5 page 86

tanka

night sky
our hands
barely touching
strawberry moon
without cream

Published (2020) BHS 30th Tanka Anthology page 29

tanka

relationship
counselling
we meet half way
but the bridge
collapses

above
  moon
    wood
      still
        purple
          blossom

Published (2020) The Bamboo Hut  Number 3

pale peonies

drooping

momento mori

a dragonfly

electric blue

not a day wasted

Published (2020) weird laburnum 7 August