Set no alarm
to lie in Saturday
space for the mind
to wander.
She said her mind
was like a bag of weasels
I wish I’d
thought of that.
I had not seen that
the cat has
one rogue whisker
above her left eye.
The apple tree
is pixilated
by rain running
down the window pane.
Is this, then the present?
Rain is so ‘now’
you said to me,
well, it’s ‘here’.
Just because you
have seventeen
syllables
doesn’t mean
you’re a haiku.
Thank God for a snigger on a soggy day! (thank you too, BTW)
While I was writing those, the said rain was penetrating the roof in at least 3 places! Am now borrowing extra buckets for the attic. The slaters have been repairing a chimney head and have copped off to the shinty leaving slates disarranged through which…
Moral of story?
I love it!
Dorothy
Soggy city day
unseen summer pigeons fly
I hear their high “coo”
Summer long ago
Langa Farm near Campbeltown
Milking time: Hi, coo.
Trouble in Nepal
Maoists in the government
That’s a real high coup.
Coo-er!