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Sunday 30 June 2019

the blackbird's nest
a dinner plate
for the magpie
my fish and chips
wrapped
in fake newspaper

Published (2019)  Frogpond Volume 42:3 page 44
wearing nothing
except
his invisible socks
midsummer day
the only breeze
a hover fly

Published (2019) by the Wales Haiku Journal Summer

Published (2019) London Haiku Group Anthology 2019 page 37

Thursday 27 June 2019

this year's roses
blooming
without her

Wednesday 26 June 2019

a bamboo flute!
just what
was I thinking?

Saturday 22 June 2019

in the cathedral
no shorts
another blow to my faith

Friday 21 June 2019

the fisherman’s wife
boils a kettle
circling gulls

Published (2019) London Haiku Group Anthology 2019 page 37
Portofino
another boatload of cash
arrives 

Thursday 20 June 2019

New World morning
a different
dawn chorus
quinoa
who knew
it was pronounced like that?

Tuesday 18 June 2019

another broken tooth
dying
one piece at a time

Published (2019) cattails October page 47

Saturday 15 June 2019

at the kitchen door
freeing the bumble bee
it flies back in

Friday 14 June 2019

from black through grey
to white
notan morning
monsoon arriving
she battens down
her skirt

Published (2020) Akitsu Quarterly Spring

Wednesday 12 June 2019

Nan Lian sequence

Nan Lian gardens
composing
cicada haiku

temple rainwater
dripping
dripping

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Nan Lian cafe
the waitress
reads her Buddha book

bonsai trees
tortured
into obedience

Published by Poetry Pea 15 July 2019

Sunday 9 June 2019

climate change conference 
he boards
the long-haul flight 
low cloud
obscuring the sun
much mist

Thursday 6 June 2019

my umbrella
bone dry
at home
no urinals
in the women’s toilet
apparently
library cafe
the smell of coffee
mingled with words
in the hotel room
I name the gecko
Chairman Mao

Monday 3 June 2019

long distance lovers
the space between
his New Year and hers
reunion dinner
just that moment
of hesitation

Published (2019) in Failed Haiku Volume 4, Issue 43, page 11
a haiku poet
strolls past
composing
Sunday morning
last night's party
on the pavement

Published (2019) Blithe Spirit Volume 29 Number 3 page 36
waiting for a bee
I write this haiku
anyway

Saturday 1 June 2019

a large headstone
matching
his reputation
their inheritance
he leaves them
his last breath
relationship over
the ring
of metal

early morning market
the smell
of fresh tomatoes

Published (2019) Blithe Spirit Volume 29 Number 3 page 36

Living Haiku Anthology
inflated ideas
a Good Luck balloon
floats past

Published (2019) in Failed Haiku Volume 4, Issue 43, page 11

Published (2019) London Haiku Group Anthology 2019 page 37
clay pigeon shoot
the real pigeons
just watching

on a branch
mating pigeons
one moving sideways
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two pigeons
mating
a shower of leaves