in my tears

the wooden Buddha

begins to float

ancient Chinese temple

each guide

telling a different story

Published (2019) Blithe Spirit Volume 29 Number 4 page 29

Published (2019) London Haiku Group Anthology 2019 page 37

Shanxi Province Museum

the smell

of ancient toilets

his early rock

her late scissors

the toddler wins again

Yingze Park

even the peonies

sing patriotic songs

sipping the whisky

falling

for the seduction

of the blurb

on the label

ignoring the one-legged beggar

I disembark the train

guilty

the endoscopy begins

with the first live view

of my rear end

daring not

to speak it’s name

boy erased

sixties revival evening

on the wall

a defibrillator

Published (2019) London Haiku Group Anthology 2019 page 37

flowers

taking my breath away

hay fever

stubble on the winter field
the farmer
rubs his chin

Published (2020) Failed Haiku Issue 73 page 120

Senior Rail Card

nearing the end

of the journey 

glass half empty

my sorrow

drowns me

that may have been

my death

haiku

the liminality

of late summer evenings

new morning

the smell

of things yet to come

reaching the low note

on my shinobue

at last

****

A perfect day

reaching the low note

on my shinobue

stubble fires

preparing

to burn all night

a vixen

setting the cornfield

alight

Sappho (translated by Mary Bernard)

the cricket sets

up a high-pitched

singing in his wings

from At noontime 

****

Ambrosia stood

already mixed

in the wine bowl

from Peace reigned in heaven

****

The full moon is shining

Girls take their places

as though around an altar

from And their feet move

****

Stars near the lovely

moon cover their own

bright faces

from Awed by her splendour 

The swans on the river

While a wind blows over

A waste of thistles

from Winter by Philip Larkin

through the old magnifying glass

reading

with my mother’s eyes

Published (2019) Failed Haiku Volume 4, Issue 45, page 86 

an old cat

stretched out 

on a hot car roof

at the kitchen door 

a half eaten fly

in the spider’s web