the spray can
behind her back
'trick or treat'?

                                 break up

the boy sits on a rock      the girl calls a friend

and throws stones                          and tells all

new razor

on my old face

the nick of time

yellow days
the sky growing
through the trees

Accepted by Poetry Pea

desert night

Bedouin picnic

with two circles

coffee break

adding Canderel®

to full fat latte

the niqab

unable to hide

her beauty

Sailing By*

the time I didn’t spend

with my father

* Sailing By is the signature tune that precedes The Shipping Forecast on BBC Radio 4

Harunobu prints
impossible not to look
...again

incensed
the lady leaves
the perfume shop

Riyadh hotel lobby
with no faces
women drifting past

Published (2019) in Failed Haiku Volume 4, Issue 38, page 10

Living Haiku Anthology

waking
hungover in Riyadh
midnight flight

autumn morning
the river
with only one bank

packing
long-haul flight
house keys

alone
deserted lunchtime restaurant
the waiter watches

memorandum to self
no more
memoranda to self

Gotham

Batman prequel

so many cliffhangers

licking its beak

the magpie

eyes the fledglings

unwrapped flowers

from the petrol station

Valentine’s Day

the wasp
in a beer bottle
happy daze

Published (2018) in Jalmurra 6 July

weekend visitors gone
still
that different smell

what happens?
oh...
essentially nothing

(ekphrastic on The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac)

Published (2019) Poetry Pea 16 December

tea for two

one teabag

true love

free newspaper
fake news
comes cheap

Published (2018) Under the Basho - Modern Haiku

Living Haiku Anthology

last beer

leaving the pub

my cares return

PRET A MANGER

So much better than

"Ready to eat"

Smithfield market

the smell

of slaughter

bookstore

browsing

looking for hope

war correspondent
anticipating battle
killing time

Published (2018) Under the Basho - Modern Haiku

Thermodynamics

flames

shedding light

The First Law

****

beach night

castle sand

The Second Law

****

absolutely

still

The Third Law

mobile phone

shouting...my

passive aggression

polygenic risk scores

something else

I don’t understand

town fair
waltzers spinning
and candy floss

Added to: Australian Haiku Society Autumn Equinox Haiku String 2019 (theme: City Life)

a the crack
of broken twigs
the smell of sap

Published (2018) Under the Basho - Modern Haiku

Living Haiku Anthology

in the ploughed field

a house

with no roof

Starbucks coffee

my name

on a cup

two magpies

in the rowan tree

gulping* berries

* a ‘gulp’is a collective name for magpies

another
haiku book!
my wife...

black cab driver
the prejudice comes
free of charge

Uber driver
another
life story

Published (2018) Failed Haiku Volume 3, Issue 35, page 22

Living Haiku Anthology

family house

for sale sign

when to tell the kids?

in the spirit

of Basho

I drown my sorrows

arms out

expecting a hug

we fist pump

trying to recall

which one

was the cherry tree?

a stone’s throw

he says

but I don’t see one

my neighbour

cutting his grass

- again!

killing the wasp

easily

the end of summer

Published: The Mainichi 2 November 2018

Comment by Dhugal Lindsay in Haiku in English: Best of 2018:

With the colder temperatures the movements of cold-blooded organisms gets sluggish. The moment is also the moment that summer ends for the poet.

flight delayed

more time

to fret