Bite and Beech | Haiku

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The days are drawing in here in Scotland – a couple of haiku to match…

A picture of a window, frosted from the inside, with the shapes of autumnal trees outside seen through the pane. There is a sense of winter dark coming and a drawing-in of the year.

Bite

Autumn-misted panes –

a clear, sharp, biting sense of

winter’s dark looming.

A half-bare acer tree losing its leaves in autumn. In the background are the indistinct shapes of oaks, beeches, and assorted other trees which are further on in losing their leaves than the acer.

Beech

Having clung on past

oak and beech, rowan and ash,

the acer runs red.

Thanks for reading folks. Recent short stories include ‘A Prompting at Greysteer House‘ and ‘Ribbons in the Valley‘.

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.

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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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