Friday, 1 December 2023

freezing fog
crows
appear and disappear

Published (2024) Blithe Spirit Volume 34 Number 1 page 9

Thursday, 30 November 2023

Saturday, 9 September 2023

Saturday, 2 September 2023

between
a heron and a fly fisher
the salmon chooses
its fate

Published (2023) Blithe Spirit 33:4 page 41

Friday, 14 July 2023

Saturday, 1 July 2023

Friday, 23 June 2023

Friday, 5 May 2023

Friday, 28 April 2023

Tuesday, 25 April 2023

Friday, 7 April 2023

Friday, 17 March 2023

Sunday, 12 March 2023

Airport sequence

airport bus
the mysteries contained
in large bags

security check
I shuffle through
holding up my trousers

at the gate
passport, bags and boarding pass
never enough hands

Tuesday, 28 February 2023

Wednesday, 15 February 2023

a burst of snowdrops
on the mortuary road
last journey home

Published (2023) Blithe Spirit Volume 33 Number 2 page29

Friday, 27 January 2023

Wednesday, 18 January 2023

cold horses
huddled round hay
their breath forms a cloud

or (suggested by Audrey Dunne):

cold horses
huddled round hay
breathing a cloud

Monday, 9 January 2023

shooting pigeons
with his air rifle he kills
the Holy Spirit

Published (2021 Failed Haiku Volume 8, Issue 87

on the pavement a beggar outside Tesco  avoiding eye contact