Other Writing

J.M. Lane’s haiku appear in Rain and Roots: A Nature & Earth Haiku Anthology, a new international collection celebrating the natural world through one of poetry’s smallest forms.

The anthology brings together writers from different countries and backgrounds, each capturing brief moments of landscape, weather, memory and place in just a handful of lines.

For anyone who enjoys haiku, nature writing, or simply discovering new poets, Rain and Roots is well worth a look. It is also a lovely way...

Night Waters
I am getting older.
My prostate has swollen
in sympathy with my belly,
So now I drink less water
before bed,a peace offering
For the body.
Still, sometime after midnight
comes that little dart
low in the stomach.
Up.
Bare feet on cold floor,
quick little steps
to the bathroom,
and there,in the dark,
I sit down to pee
like a lady.
Women are clever.
Why have men spent centuries
standing up for this?
Then back to bed,
careful not to wake herself,
which means, naturally,
pressing both freezing feet
against...

The following is a poem to honour the love my uncle Pa Malone has for his partner , Annie, my Aunt who sadly passed away.

The church is hot.
The smell of cut grass
Flows through the open doors.
Inside, the heat has drawn something sweet
from the mahogany pews.
That is what I remember.
And the quiet, broken now and then
by a cough, a child being shushed,
shoes scraping the floor,
the pews creaking when somebody moves.
There are no seats left.
My feet hurt.
I stand at the back, shifting my weight
from leg to...