Herbal medicine when you start, it’s about pulling out the tall weeds the spiky ugly ones easy to grip, but thorny – quick tug and they’re gone then there’s the grass lush and even from a distance, but can you see the harsh invaders the imposters and the slugs? this is not the lawn […]
Strawberry Moon – 100 words
Strawberry moon Lush with the kiss of warm evenings and sticky sweet fruit promises it hangs ripe and fat where abundance meets greed and juice bursts, flows, rushes sating all senses In belly-tight contentment, we lie under gentle air that whispers to my skin, and turn to trust this season’s lust and, eventually, […]
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Dryad – 100 words
Dryad I’m young in the woods with new-hatched insects, buzzing busy, and idle hop birds, indolent and dusty. I can see child hands, pressed on rock, in sand, digging and wriggling with worms or gleaming beetles, palm of night-green leaf crush. Kneeling to work and study knobbles under canopy ferns: my nest, […]