Long and Lean | Haiku

Hi folks,

diving from the grey skies into the pitch-dark mines today with a couple of haiku…

Long

Grey fugue stretching long

Across shadowless hillocks –

Cotton wool-covered.

Lean

Past headstock and cage

To lean face, lost hall – notes of

Industry long past.

Thanks for reading, folks. Second picture courtesy of Hippopx. Other recent short stories include ‘Bellahouston‘ and ‘Listen‘.

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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, Down in the Dirt, and Shooter magazine. He has a Professional Doctorate in Education. Matthew blogs at www.matthewjrichardson.com.