frost
on the spent firework casing
new year's day

gallery café
someone else's child
dancing for us

winter park -
white wings and blue lights
flashing

photo archive
the ice skaters' grins
frozen in time

... upon seeing a picture of Torville and Dean skating on home "turf" in our record office

a wasp
struggling in the web
last apples

rewriting
the first draft
coffee stain

chimp on the pump
a pint of
Blue Monkey

daughter's homework
even in my dreams
Fibonacci

lost in the country
the surprised yaw!
of a peacock

hazard lights
through raindrops
October leaves

Sympathy for the Devil
a wood pigeon
joins in

"konichi wa"
the parrot's blank stare -
only fluent in English

solid gold hits -
I wish the builders could be
California girls

far from home
the morning chatter
of flying foxes

winter sunset
the faded colours
of the fro-yo shack

Uluru sunrise
tourists armed
with selfie sticks

zoo shop
green ants haul
a cockroach skyward

under serendipity
I find my surname
in the hotel phone book

(When you have a rare spelling of a rare surname, chance phone book trawling is a requisite pastime).

clematis climbing
climbing through
the climbing rose

Off to Oz for a bit. See you next month.

aimless whistling
he goes about
his tasks