Shade

Close up photo of a small key lime fruit on the tree, behind its leaves.

Freckled teenager
avoiding direct sunlight:
young lime on its tree.

Flown

Close up photo of a bird’s nest, crumbling between the branches of a flower tree.

Fledglings leave the nest,
the last of the twigs crumble:
parents’ duties done.

Flowering peas

Photo of the flowers of sweet peas, climbing on a fence.

Aiming for the skies,
peppered along my garden:
purple drop, sweet peas.

Flight

Photo of the sun set shades, as seen from inside an airplane flying above the clouds.

Majestic eagle,
flying into the sunset—
metal in the sky.

Summer birth

Close up photo of broad beans growing on a plant, with the sun shining through the gaps in the plant.

Pregnant belly swells,
stretching out in the sunshine—
broad beans in labour.