January

 

“january haiku garden”

 

yesterday spent beheading

lavender

shrivel bent from last week’s heatwave

 

and starting trimming swaying

nectarine

branch-threads now firm fruit had dropped

 

watering-can watering

watering

best early in the morning

 

sunlight wakes epiphanies

correa

pink where yesterday was green

 

urine-rich wasp-free spreading

lemon tree

glows overnight sensations

 

dangling laughably by strings

tomatoes

lusciously by stalks hanging

 

eddies of airiness wave

banksia

to-and-fro ancient whiteness

 

rivers of timber rainbow

eucalypt

send endings into flowers

 

eye perceives green pagodas

sweet basil

nose detects fragrant odours

 

buried inside numerous heads

climbing rose

holds off the moment again

 

buried in clump of compost

pumpkinseed

returns curved in great green clouds

 

knowing not the hour wait

hakea

breaking open in the heat

 

secure another year

satsuma

sweetened air softening death

 

ramifications of the

secateurs

collect in a wheelbarrow

 

and native pea climbers spray

green shade-cloth

and burst through paling fence slats

 

rising infestations curbed

bamboo shoots

thinned bundled tied for high stakes

 

next day unseasonal floods

gutters full

seem now seasonal enough