a glass of malt
and an unsolved death -
Saturday night in

pigeons bob and peck
under the stern gaze
of the scarecrow

measuring the
week's progress -
garden bird feeder

last years
sapling unzipping
her corset

Coronavirus day six
jet washing
the jet washer

two bluetits
on a sunlit twig
for best effect

garden shadow's 

sharp edge - 

frosted grass

in the stratum of sunlight
above the shadowed garden -
bluetits

the rising sun
slowly changing
the geometry of shadows

self isolating
Amazon delivery -
knock-a-door-run-away

racing pigeons
flashing silver
under heavy skies

March blossom
on the cherry's
sunward side

starter main course
and dessert
three puddles of vomit

my heel slips
on vomit -
Friday night out

crow solves
the burger-box problem -
processed food

texting whilst walking
I find myself
in the ladies loo

revolving doors
and escalators -
timing is everything

the mechanical digger's
sharp elbow -
praying mantis

two fat pugs
chase a frisbee -
the memories of wolves

above Westminster
the union flag flies
from left to right

coloured cables
on the tunnel walls -
underground map

keeping my
identity safe -
self storage

the square pond's
flat plane -
frozen still

close-ranked
under the war memorial -
January daffodils

five magpies
on the road -
bar code

white on blue
in high bare branches -
tesco bag

I place two stones
on my shadow
and walk away

nine white ducks
under the tree -
town hall meeting

a glass of malt
and a book of haiku
beside my chair

the long shadows
of two bicycles -
rippling the winter hedgerow

how slowly
time passes -
speed awareness course

fourteen yellow leaves
the bare
tree's crown

drab autumn hedgerow
marbled with
green ivy

two clocks ticking
to different beats -
syncopated time

a mother's love
revealed in the
tenderness of stone

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golden coins
at the tree's base
an unexpected windfall

the beeches
trembling leaves
clinging to summer

with St John's head
on her platter -
Salome slicing

fresh-kneaded dough
and my grandmother's memory
rising together

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the white butterfly
circling the snowberry -
season's change

old friends
round a table -
bread and wine

late summer swallows
wheel and circle -
winging it

persistent drizzle
under grey skies -
washing the solar panels

overlapping circles
on the lake's surface -
unexpected showers

the stillness
of a drawn bow -
waiting spider

in my
arrow's flightpath -
dancing dragonflies

walking along
his nose in a book
on a collision course

jet fighters
fleeing
their thunder

a seagull
descends with the breeze
as another rises

little lizard
on a stone path -
panic attack

harvest spider
keeping pace with my boots -
briefly

upturned shell
on gravelly beach -
emerald bottle glass

two cormorants
on a black rock -
white spume

sharp slanted
sea rocks
green surging wave

horizontal trunk
and vertical branches -
square roots

a vivid
blanket of moss -
roots and stones

wall ferns
brush my fingertips -
blackberry thorns

all the trees
bend to point
the wind's way

ancient treetops
and younger saplings
directing the wind

the old
stone wall's
mossy tonsure

beyond the
flexing treetops
a sunlit hillside

wasps unwelcome
at the picnic -
summer semaphore

bloody feathers
in a circle -
dinner plate

crossing the
cattle grid -
size thirteen boots

butterfly bush
between the tracks -
inter-railing

a tiny sail-boat
skimming the water -
downy white feather

green grass under
thunder clouds -
electric blue

dragonfly over
sparkling water -
carpe diem

the campsite's
distant corner -
a rocking caravan

blank eye-sockets
of wall mounted deer -
roast lamb dinner

wedding anniversary dinner
we discuss
the cutlery drawer

right in the middle
of my telescope lens -
a huge spider

the women
greet one another
with falsetto cries

new mum gazes
at her new baby -
dad takes selfies

two gossiping friends
stick the knife in -
lunch is served

old stone lintel
above the
bricked-up door

she's away
for a few days -
the seat's up

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three pairs of spectacles
and a denture -
bedside companions

riding the breeze
the bee tracks
the moving leaf

order of service
for the funeral of...
my growing collection

a bee pauses
momentarily -
double yellow lines

late July
the chestnut's
brown-edged leaves

magpie takes
the zebra crossing -
black and white and...

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eight lanes
of motorway -
a sunlit hillside

the drunk
recalls his ex
under the lychgate

a fine rain
kerbside puddles -
the funeral car

minnows align
within the flow -
I ponder retirement

message whilst cycling
and you'll die -
predictive text

a sapling
in the bell tower -
church growth

a swift arc
the ball's flight
a tiny splash

the bee flies
over water
beside the bridge

a motionless willow
under heavy skies -
crashing thunder

chocolate cake
under a glass dome -
smash-and-grab

crow in two dimensions
the breeze
moving its feathers

sheer granite face
a lichen ring
making a foothold

the derelict airfield
shaped by
the world's horizon

an old man
browsing cheap wine -
tasselled shoes

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two tiny birds
in arial combat
death wish

white van
in the poppy field
three hi-viz jackets

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watching
the morris dancers
open-mouthed

through two windows
I see her tears
at the traffic lights

Monday morning
bathroom scales
fake news

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white on blue
the lark's thin trill
invisibly high

an archery field
the swallow's
precision flight

the crow squats
momentarily
then springs into flight