last one in
a moth enters through
the closing door
Author: David Serjeant
David Serjeant lives in Derbyshire, UK, where he works in online communication for a local authority. His work has been published in journals such as Blithe Spirit, Presence, Simply Haiku, Shamrock and Chrysanthemum, amongst others.
cloud shadows on the highway scudding a h e a d
home from the city—
waiting at the station
Orion
Original version published in Shamrock.
daughter and
mother the
same hard face
my colleague
flirting with the workmen
. . . endless summer rain
war ruins…
suddenly the cicadas
stop
fading tattoos
he hauls her wheelchair
from the beach
remission —
in the rear-view the crow
settles back on the roadkill
in
an old car
an old man and
an old dog
christmas lights . . .
the ambulance flashing
in all the windows
oppressive heat
from the block of flats
a tuneless song