Cicada

Cicada
Roger Smith  March 2012

Let me hear to nightjay once more
its song over Queenstown
above the rush of the MRT

not the english chirp
of a carniverous sparrow
devouring the last cicada of summer

Roger Smith. 2012

In The Deepest Pools

Pool
Roger Smith 2012

In the deepest pools
lie the greatest reflections
Koi rising towards the light
a flash of gold amongst the reeds

Candy Floss

Like a man
spinning straw into gold
you stand

mutlicolour  sugar-sweet
and a hand
that stirs beneath the rim

under a sapping sun
umbrella overhead and
excited voices
next in line