Haikus // 2023

10th January 

Leek and potato

Soup maker, do your smooth thing

But leave some roughage

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18th February

Jill Whiteley’s gone

Rotored off to sunny shores

And a glass city

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7th April

Daffodils spring up

Bold yellow trumpets tooting

The fresh season’s song

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20th April

Vauxhall bibimbap 

A Gordon Ramsay beer ad

plays, madly, on loop

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20th May

Sweatbox mini bus

Through green Transylvania

Unspoiled trees and hills

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4th June

T-shirts say, “SELF MADE”

and “I CAN’T IT’S TAX SEASON”

Manhattan logic

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30th July

London housing’s churn

Moving day… four… flights… of… stairs…

Sisyphus happy

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15th August

There’s a storm brewing

Lightning over Lake Garda

The low roar of wind

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22nd September

Seasons change slowly

But not this time… the downpour

Fall and bone’s cold snap

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3rd October

The old boiler’s out

Born: two thousand and seven

It huffs its last breath

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8th October 

We buried Ferry

At the end of the garden

In his coconut

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31st December

Micro and macro

Another year of haikus 

While floating in space

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