Funeral tea Over the sandwiches nobody wanted: A lovely service… So sad… More tea? Did you know…? Do you remember…? I wish… So do I… We shut our eyes and wished harder than we’d ever wished before and there you were shimmering over teacups. Made from dust and misery and pieces of our hearts, […]
Change – 100 words
Change Wood eventually dries, crumbles, splits and releases the nail. Sellotape, exhausted, curls up and falls off the paper. Silt shifts and rocks roll down the river, night gloom is slashed by dawn and flees. Rain dries. Midnight hungry babies will eventually be teenagers that won’t get out of bed. Skin will sag. People […]
Pendulum – 100 words
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Solstice – 100 words
Solstice We grow like plants towards the light – straining, strong, blood-sap rising, our vein-visible leaf-tips fluttering up, reaching, rushing, straight overhead, meeting beating down sun at its highest, balanced and bringing fire to earth – a smouldering manifestation of living energy. My growing, glowing plant centre can sense the neck-cricking pull to […]