Mountain and Milksop | Haiku

A couple of frigid haiku on a Sunday…

A snow-cloaked valley with an icy river running through

Mountain

A mountain-born cold

carried over cataracts

to frost-tinged plains.

A pale sun shining through fog.

Milksop

A pale, milksop sun

heaves itself up and over.

Winter equinox.

Thanks for reading folks. Recent short stories include ‘The Kinmount Straight‘ and ‘Shadow and Light‘.

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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