Zen Haiku

4490

draughtsman’s drawings
what excitement as rooms
appear on paper

waters breaking
the sun-blind windscreen
to the hospital

at breast
in tender joy
her second born

first kick
lightens the life
she grows

start of life
her first kick
in the guts

Now seeing
the ninth month shape
the way she walks.

Boat harbour
feeling all nine months
she feeds the gulls.

The whole of the paddock
to gambol
mother and foal.

home opened for sale
the way they scattered
our children’s toys.

Turning in bed
her pregnancy
between us.