Haikus // 2022

15th January

We bagged the tree for

The bins outside Sainsbury’s

A frail skeleton

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18th February

Planes like plastic bags

Watch live on BIG JET TV

The Dome, torn apart

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22nd March 

Sunshine on Tuesday

Bare skin and vitamin D

Antarctic horror

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21st April

Fourth plumber’s a charm

Pipe Tetris; sodden carpet

What are landlords for?

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7th May

The terrarium

Soil, charcoal, and breathing fern 

A whole world inside

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26th June

Neon flashes red

MEGA PIZZA: a tenner

SMALL: one ninety nine

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24th July

He’s crepuscular

A lover of transitions

The darkness and light

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3rd August

Rings around an oak

The musk of dog and old world 

As light catches ash

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14th August

Storm down the M8

As the stuffy Cork sky swells

Fields, cows, and mountains

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4th September

Michael Rosen ranks

Anything and everything

Like tinned peach syrup

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5th October

I donated my shoes

The toe pinchers and lace ups

None fit flipper feet

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31st December

Over the chimneys

Glistening gutters and tiles

Sun breaks through the clouds

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