Outside the pane: haiku for January 2010

sunflowers
and a new neighbour
waving

5/1/10


the wind chimes are up
boxes out of the living room
bit by bit new home

7/1/10


mountains
from every window
thick with trees

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outside the pane
a pair of lizards
stopped for gazing

11/1/10


in the hottest hours
even the ants
are still

14/1/10


clouds piled
on each other
on treetops

15/1/10


kookaburra
through the kitchen window
looks us over

butcher bird
on the veranda
nods its head

22/1/10


‘My life has begun,’
he writes, moving out of mine —
someone else’s son.


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lightning out there
the edge of the cyclone
rattling the dark

28/1/10