part of the moon
missing from the sky...
funeral day

gone
father
who was never
a father
so why this heavy heart


i'll be away from blogging for a little while...

Modern Haiku 43.3 (2012)

transit of Venus
a distant friend mentions
divorce

my breaststroke the length of the pool my coughing

Presence 48

day moon
a roebuck lifts his head
from a patch of courgettes

expecting too much of me light through a prism

Modern Haiku 43:3 (2012)

white lies
bracken
taller than me

Notes from the Gean 2:4 (2011)

hazy moon
all the shapes of
a hangover

sitting together
without a need to talk —
Constable's clouds

table for two
he sits alone playing
with a cocktail umbrella

ripening oxheart
a new battery for his
pacemaker

a shelf cloud rolling in again i check my email

the guy on a tv show
slices mango —
sultry afternoon

again that fly
i thought i'd shooed away...
heat lingers

between birth and death
trying to comprehend
infinity

waning moon
i let a ladybird
fly off my hand

accepting what comes...
a moth's wings open
to the night

clinging to the cliff
five arms
of a starfish

June 2013 Shiki Kukai

in and out of a snail shell ants

holiday plans
sparrow chirps sift through
the coffee bar's awning

The Heron's Nest XIII:3

everything
we have in common
plum blossom rain

sirocco
two men by the seawall
mending nets