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, […]
Don’t call me light red – 100 words
Don’t call me light red Passionate pink is sexy – Valentine’s hearts and ribbons Bubblegum, barbie, cotton candy, Squashums Pink for a girl Pink when the inside shows outside – the lips, the mouth, the eyes Watermelon, coral, flamingo Flamenco Pink is suggestive, makes them wink In the pink: never felt better White women’s pink […]
Worm Moon – 100 words
Worm moon There they are under warming soil and roots, wriggling and writhing their way up to turn pointy faces or bums (you can’t tell which) to the eponymous moon. But they’re wrong. Lunar worms are lavae of American beetles spotted waking from frost by the Naudowessie people each March. Their North Dakotan neighbours call […]
