Haiku: Easterly Wind

Cold easterly wind
bringing snow and lurid light —
starlings gathering

Haiku: Light Returning

A light returning
through the greying firmament.
The cat is outside

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Precursors of spring;
purity from mother’s heart.
A neighbour’s warm smile.

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Through the creeping light
night and day undivided;
a thousand birdsongs

A skein of geese
across sparse sky —
The cat stretches