Palm Sunday

the queue of penitents

rehearsing their story

chimney pot pigeons

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coastal tank traps

half buried

memories of war

the holly bush

erupts

into a pigeon

rape seed field

the smell

of yellow

the young vet

our old cat

the end

stormy night

I imagine the garden

rearranged

Published (2021) Wales Haiku Journal Spring

shuffling slowly

towards the testing centre

lateral flow

memorial gathering

fence flowers flutter

their goodbye

the coroner's van

gliding away

respectfully