" title="Painted, spoken Alexander Hutchison
Elemental Haiku
air/earth earth/fire
Blue, white, black – blink Tattie-shaws are maybe
of mischief from wall to ground not the softest bed for
and down – Signor Magpie! this bare business.
earth/water air/water
Puddock – who else? Yellow flag on the machair;
Sheer presumption: loath in a pot here, kin: mauve
to shift one lollop or flop. velvet, saffron-tongued.
fire/water air/fire
Carp ogle, twitch for One to the core;
food; we too – somewhere another scrapes the side.
in this fishy scale of gold. Flame signals slow fall.
earth/fire air/fire
Flowering currant – An interval: sudden
Chlöe dabbling underneath: slow – not a flash, not
cat's piss top and bottom. a breath: fire-fly.
earth/air water/earth
Everywhere the wind: Out of a ditch by
checked, braced, body- Peter Fair: in a jam-
searched, we lean right in. jar with chickweed
(tadpoles) home.
air/water
A monkey is nothing like
this: nor you, her, nor me –
but see: say: do.
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