Generations

random selection
spins combination lock –
big crab claws

Breakfast

steaming hides abound –
tractors speed deafeningly fast
clutching breakfast

Starfish

starfish wrestling –
waves clinking at bared feet
soothing pebble sores

Skyward Paws

tired dogs rest belly up –
paws cast smouldering shade after
walking on the sun

Keep Fit

manicured lawn –
seagulls dance on the heads
of juicy worms

Passing of a Nut

I am a nut upon the ground
where broken husks lie all around.
Squirrel teeth have cracked the shells
and chewed the life from all my pals.

My crisp and shiny skin stands proud,
I will not hide within this crowd.
Soon my rodent chum will eat his fill,
but greed will make him take me still.

I’ll ride away stuffed in his cheek,
he’ll jump here and there just like a freak.
Spit out into a hole and stamped right in,
I hope to lie here deep, and totally forgotten.

Ice Cold

dark icy river –
suns warm touch wakes
tormented waters

Multiverse

From the bottom of the garden
with my head tipped right over,
it seems like the yard is vertical.

There’s this theory that for every
choice in life you didn’t take there
is another universe where you did.

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Unsatisfied Hunger

unseen force whips last
biscuit coloured leaf away –
empty wrappers burn

Evening Outlook

squirrels bury nuts –
long shadows cast a dark
cane for my hand