─ may 2004 ─
Written
with haiku friends
Gabriel Rosenstock, Norman Darlington
and Joe McFadden
on a walk at
Sandymount and Irishtown
Park on Sunday 30 May 2004.
Norman Darlington:
sun after rain
a grey heron
stalks the sandflats
shower to the north
wild fennel
marks the path
laburnum tunnel
a lark's voice
draws my eye
among knotweed
making old friends
of new acquaintances
Gabriel Rosenstock:
a profusion of fennel
and the lark's voice
is watery green
a bone on the beach
that once had flesh
and copulated
Jim Norton:
At the Shelly Banks
Seaside treat:
summer rain-showers
wet a snail
Quite briskly
a snail sails by:
we’re glued to the spot.
As we walk
moths and butterflies
rise up, up
Umbrellas:
rain from the mountain
on our drums
How it ebbs and flows,
good talk and noble silence:
friends along the shore
Hum-hum-hum!
the sewage-works
pure nowness
Naming plants
then falling silent
as a lark
One red dot
in the vast expanse
two
lovers
A heron!
poised…ready…
shits backwards
heaps of shells
alive-alive-oh-oh
drifts of sand
In the beer-garden
we are guest of the whitebeam
ants and us humans
