Breezeless and Bobbing | Haiku

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There has been a stultifying heat this week in Scotland; it has been responsible for the following haiku…

Yellow and black dragonfly

Breezeless

Footling summer hum

Of airborne things, of breezeless,

Pollen-heavy heat.

Ear of corn bent over under its own weight

Bobbing

Solemn, sunburned ears

Tracing breeze-bobbing ovals

Under sun’s slow arc.

*Thanks for reading, folks. Images courtesy of Wikipedia and Martin Birkin. My recent short stories include ‘Rendered Soft‘ and ‘Across the Glassine‘.

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.

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Words in Gold Dust magazine, Literally Stories, Close to the Bone, McStorytellers, Fiction Junkies, Soft Cartel, Whatever Keeps the Lights On, Flashback Fiction, CafeLit, Best Microfiction 2021, Writer’s Egg, Idle Ink, and Shooter.

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9 thoughts on “Breezeless and Bobbing | Haiku”

  1. I enjoyed these two summery snippets, Matthew 🙂 we are so far from this, ‘enjoying’ the cold and dark of winter solstice; maybe I should try to capture this as you have the heat in Scotland 🙂

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  4. I particularly liked your ‘Under sun’s slow arc‘ – it reminds me about the long, long days in the summer, especially in Scotland. Enjoy, Matthew!

    (meanwhile, us southern hemisphere people find this a little chilly at the moment)

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