Litter

photo of a hospital wristband lying on a bed of decaying leaves

Hospital gardens:
good people make bad choices;
littering wristbands.

Secrets

Photo of two tombstones in a cemetery with trees and plants around them.

Chamber of the dead;
while life bustles overhead,
entomb old secrets.

Jam

photo of a line of traffic cones by the road side in Auckland city

Casting nasty spells
witches hats on the side street
holding up traffic

Bright

Photo of the sunset’s glow as seen from the window of the plane, with the light in halo around the plane’s engine.

The horizon’s bright:
my flight is a metaphor;
adventurer’s life.

Park

Photo of large trees, their leaves turning colour and dropping, with a mirror way overhead in the far distance.

Walking by a park;
above, the motorway roars—
below, some leaves crunch.