Morning folks,
This was going to be a couple of drought-themed haiku, but in the end I thought a refreshing one to finish was more palatable.
‘Breccia’ is a haiku based on the Flannan Isles off the west coast of Scotland, a notoriously difficult place to land a boat and the setting for a mysterious disappearance in 1900. I’ve just finished ‘The Lighthouse: The Mystery of the Eilean Mor Lighthouse Keepers’ by Keith McCloskey – an excellent book on the subject if you are interested in reading more.
Bake
Riverbed, tarmac,
Ray-baked, dust-choked munro path.
Cringing under sun.
Breccia
Foam-licked breccia teeth
Sheathed, and unsheathed as boats approach.
Steps rise to safety.
*Thanks for reading, folks. Images courtesy of Chris Downer and Wikipedia. My recent short stories include ‘The Road‘ and ‘A Kind of Magic‘.
Matthew Richardson is a writer of short stories. His work has featured in Gold Dust magazine, Literally Stories, Close to the Bone, McStorytellers, Penny Shorts, Soft Cartel, Whatever Keeps the Lights On, Flashback Fiction, Cafelit, Best MicroFiction 2021, Writer’s Egg, Idle Ink, The Wild Word, and Shooter magazine. He is a doctoral student at the University of Dundee, a lucky husband, and a proud father. He blogs at www.matthewjrichardson.com and tweets at https://twitter.com/mjrichardso0
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These are a pair of fantastic haikus.
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Thanks Nicole. Very much appreciated!
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I always enjoy your pairings, Matthew. These two continue your fine tradition.
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Thanks Annie. Two haiku based upon the heat were I bit too much, I found!
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Well done. Your words bring these places to life. Bake, hits close to home, as I live in a part of the Southern U.S. where it stays hot and dry in the summer.
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Thanks David. Very kind of you. Hope you’re staying cool this summer!
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thanks for these delightful haiku. Matthew and for enlarging my vocab: looked up ‘breccia’. ‘munro’; I’ve read a few lighthouse books, non-fiction, totally interesting and I saw the recent, eerie fil ‘The Lighthouse’ with William Dafoe and Robert Pattinson —
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Thanks John. ‘Breccia’ was a new one for me as well!
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well, there you are; we both learned š
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Two great haikus and photos My Friend.
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Thanks Goff!
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