Kookaburra climbs into flight
Laughing at the unseen stream
Where a sharp trajectory becomes more than it seems
A glimmer, a glint, fast into the light
Prompts madcap peals for no reason at all
Just a thing to do, with a warble or two
As it races toward water
To delay the fall
Ochre Idyls
Poems, Haiku/Tanka, Short Fictions