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  • Successful Scrum

    Locks drive from behind

    Front row holds, flankers’ eyes dart

    Eight man traps the ball

  • Into the Scrum

    Crouch bind set and drive

    Scrum-half rolls ball to hooker

    Loose-head prop holds ground

  • Haiku No. 55

    Ball out of the ruck 

    Catch and run through arm tackles 

    Diving for the try 

  • Haiku No. 54

    Wind howls through windows 

    House groans as gusts test its strength 

    Sleepless night again 

  • Morning Formal Brief

    Time hack zero five hundred

    Anxiety runs high for students in the room

    Instructors sit back waiting on perfection

    We hear weather and notices to air mission

    Aircraft systems and the emergency procedure of the day

    Students squirm while the instructors grow bored

    Zero five thirty and the formalities must end

    It’s time to brief individual flights

    The takeoff schedule waits on no one

  • Icy Glare

    The wind blows over the frozen streets,

    The ice pellets raining down in sheets.

    The dark before dawn broken by the street lights,

    The howl of the wind as it cuts and it bites.

    I stoke the ashes and watch the flames grow,

    I hold my coffee tight and glare out the window.

  • Winter break has come to an end

    Winter break has come to an end

    The morning rush inside the house

    Shuffling bags and papers and lunches

    How did we ever get into the car on time?

    Traffic converges on helpless schools

    Parents jockeying for the perfect drop off spot

    And in a flurry of byes and I love you’s

    Winter break has come to an end

  • Haiku No. 53

    No tracks to follow

    No clear trail trust your calling

    Heavy winter snow

  • Haiku No. 52

    Frosted trees and grass

    Nose stings eyes water mouth breathe

    Winter morning run

  • Haiku No. 51

    Melancholy blue

    Low energy kind of day

    Good for reflecting