Snap and Shuffle | Haiku

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Hi folks,

we’re skimming over the fens and the lazy ocean waves today with a couple of haiku…

Snap

Soft snap of canvas

Above billow-bobbed sailboats.

Harbour-clad, sleeping.

Shuffle

Shuffled thrumming of

Oil-winged starlings, billowing

Across the hushed fens.

*Thanks for reading, folks. Images courtesy of Pxhere and Walter Baxter. My recent short stories include ‘Digging‘ and ‘Property for Sale – Grim-on-Wye’.

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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Stories in Golddust Magazine, Literally Stories, Idle Ink, Writer's Egg, CafeLit, McStorytellers, Whatever Keeps the Lights On, Flashback Fiction, Down in the Dirt, Close to the Bone, Shooter, Soft Cartel, Fiction Junkies, and Heavenly Flower Publishing

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21 thoughts on “Snap and Shuffle | Haiku”

  5. “Snap” and “Shuffle”: wonderful pairing, sharing a “billow.”

    Is the oil on the starlings the natural preening substance, Matthew—or a reference to man-made disaster…or both?

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