I have in my hands the back copies of Canadian Zen Haiku in which several of my haiku and senryu appear - four in the Autumn 2008 issue, six in the Summer 2009 issue. They are in English...

village children
picking the low plums -
the high fruit rots

French...

un seul jour sans soleil
déjà laissent tomber les pavots
leurs couleurs

and Scots...

a fleein' edder
hings ower the burn's lip -
afeart o' bauchles

Aspire, the new contemporary poetry journal published by Partners Writing Group, is now in my hot little hand, and my poem "amid a mad, mid-midnight chiming" is there in it. I'm going to reproduce it below for you.


amid a mad, mid-midnight chiming


My life was pinned by the wings to yours,
until the clock stopped, the hanging hands
loose to the clockface antipodes,
amid a mad, mid-midnight chiming;
of which the clangour’s laissez vibrer died
to a sub-echo, with the cleated seconds’… Continue

Letter of the Week was published!!!! Few more pounds has topped up the Aussie Fund!!

This is more a social thing, but hey, got printed!!