Reunion – tercets on triangulation

by RODNEY WILLIAMS 

on geometrical pavers in an urban garden
she offers her pair of guests Italian torte

keen to host since such time she hastens

in sketching her lifelong lines of work
mixing psychology with dance as therapy
she maps triangulations from New York              

her first love (his distance understood)                                          
has just sold a Scots gamekeeper’s lodge
in Highlands longed for here in boyhood            

their friend losing his way with haiku
still finds lodestones through Japanese verse
charting the heart in tanka not senryu                          

recalling teen years as fogged by tranks
his one canine kept that old black dog
more on this score no cause for thanks              

talking of being punched in the womb
the host sighs for a chum now deceased
who had once slept on his mother’s tomb            

her old love ends this delayed reunion
recalling billiards played ever
so late
sharpest in spotting angles in cannon
s

– Fitzroy, Melbourne