Taking Note (March '26)

silently

my cat walks through

lamplight

4/3/26

news of the world –

rising fear churns in me

and spills over

8/3/26

this old photo –

the me you never knew

11/3/26

dear old cat

more and more

sleeps

12/3/26

days of rain

then too much heat – escape 

lies indoors

12/3/26

Northern Rivers autumn –

the time of tiny geckos

13/3/26

online class cutting lino 

in little fish shapes – why?

15/3/26

looking back

more often now than forward –

am I at last old?

18/3/26

late light

sky fades to white –

sharp-edged hills

28/3/26

so sudden – 

this day long awaited

31/3/26

NaHaiWtiMo 2026 Week 4 Celestial / Vastness

 

22. SOLSTICE

we witches

dance in circle –

the year turns

23. NEBULA

reading Just Kids …

contemplating coloured clouds

in outer space 

24. ECLIPSE

eclipse –

along with the dark

silence

25. ZENITH

the sun

at its height, and I

sinking

26. AURORA

cold childhood nights –

woken to see those flashes

of eerie green

(I grew up in Launceston, Tasmania, where the 

Aurora Australis was occasionally, though rarely, 

visible, and my parents insisted I must view it.)

27. TIDE

a sunny day –

on the outgoing tide

my friend’s ashes

28. HORIZON

far over the sea

or drawn close by the mountains –

the same horizon?

*

(1)

always

further to travel –

frustration!

(2)

still

further to travel –

such a comfort!

(3)

again

further to travel –

inspiring!

(I don’t mean for readers to choose a 

favourite of these. They are intended as a 

sequence: contradictory perhaps, yet all valid.)

*

moonlight on water 

bridging the horizon –

a beckoning path

NaHaiWriMo 2026 Week 3 Geological / Terrain

 

15. ABYSS

always

alongside the climb

the drop

*

the edge –

is this dizziness

terror, or lure?

16. CANYON

Kings Canyon –

deep narrow walls 

frame the sky

*

among stones

on the canyon floor

tiny plants

*

exploring ‘canyon’ –

I decide not to go deep

into metaphor

17. CRATER

abyss, canyon 

deep holes in the earth –

and now crater

*

quiet crater –

this ancient caldera

overgrown

*

18. FJORD

fjord photos –

deep blue cold to long for 

in this heat wave

*

19. DUNE

new and strange 

those books at first –

too soon too much

*

little kids 

rolling down the sandhills

over and over

*

back from the edge

a hollow in the dunes –

you and me

20. BASALT

Google explains:

fine-grained igneous rock

dense, dark-coloured

*

I live (in or on)

this ancient caldera –

its basalt floor 

*

I walk around

on the same dark rock

that lines the ocean

21. MARSH

don't play there

said parents: danger –

we sneaked out