Five Haiku
summer air thickens
two fruit bats make love
under the streetlight
numb about love
the honeybee
rejects its first flower
first spider on the moon –
he on my yellow
bathroom wall
Roman arch –
an old beggar sits
frowning at girls
ker-runch
all the snails of the universe
on their way out
Richard Thomas is a 26 year old poet living in Plymouth. His work is published in journals internationally, he was shortlisted for the National Poetry Competition 2011 and he is the editor of the poetry e-zine Symmetry Pebbles. Richard’s debut collection of poetry The Strangest Thankyou is out now through Cultured Llama. This is his website.