Alan Summers

Chippenham  UK

 

Alan Summers was born in London, brought up in Bristol, think Treasure Island, and now lives in Chippenham (Wiltshire) where by a weird and unknown coincidence many of his ancestors are buried in unmarked graves.

Chippenham is where King Alfred, and the Vikings (Danes), both took turns making it their headquarters. Alan is co-founder, with Karen Hoy, of Call of the Page promoting haiku and related genres.

 

 

Composed: Sunday April 12th 2020

 

Publication credit:

weird laburnum ed. Michael O’Brien (Easter Monday 13th April 2020)

 

 

NOTE: A full Sunday working on the haiku sequence, in one of those blessed fugues, or simply focused zones! And an editor who knows and trusts my work, hence the speed of publication.

 

 

Eleven is an Even Number: Covid Chronicles

 

different windows

the movement of the sun

around confinement

 

house arrest

the plague runner

enters our breath

 

friendly cat

its owners become

the front line

 

street applause

we recognise our heroes

are nurses under fire

 

birthday cards

in their protective casing

the evening shudders

 

blinkered sun

two metres translated

in wrong numbers

 

night-zoning

streetlights pick out

the sputum

 

Easter Quarantine

the daylight sparkles across

yet another nail

 

Easter Sunday

I fill another hollow

with antiseptic

 

Easter Internment

moonlight carries a warning

across my backyard

 

new day rising—

I spread the butter

and talk to my egg