31 March 2009

In the morning still
a fat blackbird fluttering
sounds like shuffling cards

30 March 2009

The radiator
translates words from the winter:
"I'm still here, you know"

29 March 2009

Packed shopping centre:
passers-by avert their eyes
as the baby feeds

28 March 2009

A gap in the clouds;
beam of sunshine hits the Earth –
God throws a spotlight

27 March 2009

A changeable day:
bands of light and shade sweep by –
indecisive sky

26 March 2009

A scampering mouse
in the corner of the room:
haiku audition

25 March 2009

Your four-month-old head
tucked under my chin, snug as
continents rejoined

24 March 2009

The wind's sharp whistle
echoed and distorted by
the tumbling dustbins

23 March 2009

The gate blows open,
slams shut, in the raging wind
between two seasons

22 March 2009

Motorway standstill;
a driver in the fast lane
applies mascara

21 March 2009

Our poor team makes it
three-nil in injury time;
we relax at last

20 March 2009

Hazy spring sunshine,
wine and guests and baby smiles;
no rock and roll fun

19 March 2009

Haiku's slow enough
to catch me plant pepper seeds,
not to watch them grow

18 March 2009

Frogs see me coming,
dive to the pond's murky depths
and resume kissing

17 March 2009

My itchiest feet
would make me dream about a
dream about a train

16 March 2009

Today's a great day:
spring, frogs and waterlilies,
all that haiku stuff

15 March 2009

Baby demonstrates
one thing better than great sights:
sleeping through great sights

14 March 2009

Children in the pub
playing, blind to the TV's
news and football scores

13 March 2009

Vapour trails – it seems
so innocent a phrase now –
tear the sky apart

12 March 2009

There might be thunder,
there might be sunshine; the sky's
like a baby's face.

11 March 2009

Magazine inserts,
left on a train seat, become
unflown paper planes

10 March 2009

Me and my best friends
huddled together like our
empty beer bottles

09 March 2009

Invisible wind
announces itself through the
clattering catflap

08 March 2009

Two sharp bursts of hail
darken the day; in between,
the briefest rainbow

07 March 2009

I turn off the lights,
sit, and listen to the rain
wage war on the roof

06 March 2009

Like a waterfall
or a ship's launch, but it's just
the way the light falls

05 March 2009

Bright wintertime sun,
did you beat the snow this time
or is it hiding?

04 March 2009

Ceiling downlighters,
reflected in baby's eyes,
are a diamond mine.

03 March 2009

Freezing windy night –
a couple stand kissing with
touching bobble hats

02 March 2009

A tiny spider
sheltering from the raindrops
hurled from my shower

01 March 2009

Evening kickabout –
the goalkeeper's shadow can
nudge the halfway line