Sound

 

good morning

ululation of pardalote

rummage of granola

spray of chia on bran

the ear all too soon

translating a crowd

kerang of tram

ping of updates incoming

 

good afternoon

vernacular laneway footsteps

traffic-light start-up

or gasp of sudden brakes

supermarket trolley disco

bellbird beep of barcode reads

outside again shine whine of plane

the surly throw of the wind

 

good evening

primitive ringtone town

din of deepest cafes

baristas po-faced hiss

ear curving sound to its liking

out in the air high bells

cross-dogs let off the lead

exhausts of vanishing cars

 

good night

blue note cd perfection

wineglass clinks

day’s news hi-jinx

then cutlery galumphry in sink

brit romcom in lip-synch

bins bustled to the verge

page rustled beneath lamp submerged

 

 

 

Grammar

 

[December]

 "grammar haiku december"

poetry stored in the clouds

manuscripts

accumulate to dissolve

 

searching the supermarket

syllables

for all the sugars and spice

 

snowflakes santas stables stars

objective

correlatives more galore

 

light purple jacaranda

cedillas

soft land hard concrete footpaths

 

city of many childhoods

arguments

that days observe and resolve

 

traffic lights news updates

autocues

streaming subtitling crave rest

 

even this great crass corrupt

period

will end anon period

 

behind ring-road freeway sign

directions

sits another pam the bird

 

rainclouds coastwards greyblack hold

lacuna

seascapes beachheads landfall rain

 

curling drifting wye river

adjectives

screeching warbling swirling blue

 

like roads disappear round bends

sentences

offer more than what they say

 

art makes of bark and leaves fine

rendering

trees’ unending survival

 

trees experience choicest

writer’s block

too many choices of green

 

surf could care less about the

predicate

surging submerging splurging

 

fairy wren river motions

conjunction

ever with cormorant sea

 

separating the days’ long

paragraphs

lines from the kookaburras

 

summery is a one word

summary

fairly accurate to say

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[November]

 homage to thomas hood

“no haiku november”

 

no amount of ornate word

description

gets the beauty of this world

 

no avail sandals straw hat

thirty-six

asks for air conditioning

 

no cigar for bright sparks who

net-zero

reject - future all fire

 

no experience needed

reflection

the whole being listening

 

no fun my babe hang around

spotify

feeling the same old way freaked

 

no hard feelings with flowers

freesias

roses grevilleas bloom

 

no idea what’s next but can guess

predictions

less substantive than feelings

 

no joke how so many old

skyscrapers

and new hold up together

 

no junk mail blocks the airy

letterbox

curio of email time

 

no name brand ignores human

ambition

curving leafing through landscapes

 

no qualms no frills now quaffing

burgundy

no regrets no faults no fear

 

no respite from no limits

news-cycles

decamerons in real time

 

no smoking vaping or e

cigarettes

where the public goes slow burn

 

no standing anytime down

boulevards

of ceaseless late afternoon

 

no theatre no time zones

no u turn

no vacancies no vacuum

 

no worries see you in yes

november

as they say in the classics

 

no yes no yes no yes how

synapses

pass the seconds of yes day