autumn wind

 

autumn wind

scatter my ashes

everywhere

 

 

 

bodies and things

become transparent

the blue hour

 

 

 

a portrait

of an old woman

I want to hug it

 

 

wandering

 

wandering

on a summer night

light years since

 

first published in Frogpond, autumn 2022

 

 

 

keening wind

a lonely birch tree

dancing

 

first published in Modern Haiku, autumn 2022

 

 

 

when I die

I’ll play for a long time

winter beach

 

 

this silent walk

 

this silent walk

a butterfly’s softness

on a thistle flower

 

first published in Cattails, October 2022

 

 

 

night club

the girl with a perfect

moontan

 

first published in Cattails, October 2022

 

 

 

an empty platform

at a distant train station

smell of October

 

 

the calling

 

the calling

of other places

train whistle

 

first published in Presence, July 2022

 

 

 

divorce trial

the child is cut

in two

 

first published in Prune Juice, July 2022

 

 

 

a childhood friend

mentally ill

autumn mist

 

I will go now

 

I will go now

where my eyes carry me

poplar fluff

 

first published in Wales Haiku Journal, summer 2022

 

 

 

passengers standing

on a side platform

departing summer

 

first published in Modern Haiku, summer 2022

 

 

 

the aftertaste

of a blue sky

autumn rain

 

first published in Frogpond, spring/summer 2022

 

 

a hot wind

 

a hot wind

I take her clothes off

the clothesline

 

first published in Cattails, April 2022

 

 

 

cold sunshine

a roe deer the colour

of withered grass

 

first published in Cattails, April 2022

 

 

 

the body’s air on the string G

 

first published in Bones, April 2022

 

 

May evening

May evening

another day of my

immortality

 

first published in Przekrój, spring 2022

 

 

 

the sun licks the pond

with a yellow tongue

croaking of frogs

 

first published in Przekrój, spring 2022

 

 

 

vetch flowers

the purple taste

of your lipstick

 

first published in Przekrój, spring 2022

 

the scent

 

the scent

of blue ink

first snow

 

first published in Modern Haiku, winter–spring 2022

 

 

 

the ringing

of faraway bells

dusk in a field

 

first published in Acorn, spring 2022

 

 

 

moonlight

a swan trailing

a white train

 

first published in Wales Haiku Journal, spring 2022

 

wild geese

 

wild geese

I missed

my calling

 

first published in Frogpond, winter 2022

 

 

 

the roar of traffic

dying to a murmur

country churchyard

 

first published in Prune Juice, March 2022

 

 

 

urban jungle

the high rise buildings

compete for sunlight

 

first published in Presence, March 2022

 

 

winter morning

winter morning

a sunbeam slithers

into my slippers

 

first published in The World Haiku Review, winter 2021/2022

 

 

 

dusk’s stillness

an otter slips

into water

 

first published in The Wales Haiku Journal, winter 2021/2022

 

 

 

a sharp wind blows

through the razor wire

human touch