spring sunshine

spring sunshine

your hair the colour

of last year reeds

summer field walk

finding answers to which

there are no questions

first published in Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, spring/summer 2019

windless heat

the waving hair

of water grass

the certainty

the certainty

in the blackbird’s voice

dark before dawn

first published in The Heron’s Nest, June 2019

the needle floats

on the black record

pond at dusk

holding me tightly

on a winter’s night

a weighted blanket

spring morning

spring morning

life rings the doorbell

and runs away

opening

to the black woodpecker

a dying pine tree

first published in Cattails, April 2019

slaying a dragon

a child struggles

with a piece of cake

first published in Cattails, April 2019

early spring evening

early spring evening

the dead in the photographs

look me in the eye

first published in Chrysanthemum, spring 2019

still laughing we run

to hide from the rain

paper anniversary

first published in Chrysanthemum, spring 2019

summer breeze

the fine hairs on her skin

lifting gently

first published in Acorn, spring 2019

care home

care home

she deadheads

spent roses

The R.H. Blyth Award 2019, short-listed

last to leave

the garden of Eden

falling leaves

The R.H. Blyth Award 2019, haiku of merit

a lonely spruce tree

saved from extermination

the blue of the sky

telling the story

telling the story

of the autumn lake

a mute swan

first published in Presence, March 2019

a slender girl

with a green umbrella

weight of wet snow

first published in Presence, March 2019

which I dies today

first published in Bones, March 2019

wildflowers

wildflowers

I’ll learn their names

before I die

first published in The Heron’s Nest, March 2019

I wrap myself

in the autumn field

and sleep

first published in Frogpond, February 2019

her hands tremble

like captured birds

winter wind

first published in Modern Haiku, February 2019