Recent Published Work

Haiku and Senryu

school picnic
a trickle of gin
in the lemon squash  

Failed Haiku  43, 2019.

one bed flat
a hole in her sheets
where his promise slipped

Failed Haiku 43, 2019

lakeside
sunlight trickles
through my fingers

Stardust Haiku, July 2019.

heart surgeon
the student nurse’s
palpitations  

Failed Haiku 44, 2019.

meeting my ex
our granddaughter asks
for a group hug   

Failed Haiku 44, 2019.

crowded bus
the girl in the seniors’ seat
pretends to sleep  

Failed Haiku 44, 2019, p.50.

eyes of night —
the spotted quoll runs
 for cover  

Kokako 31,  2019.

earth hour
I turn off the power /
and switch on hope  

Kokako 31,  2019.

new horizons
the tenacious glissade
of an eagle landing    

BHS FB Page, 5 August, 2019