Beastie time of year there’s a hard-winged moth clattering in my lamp shade windowsill mortuaries attended by flies on their backs buzzing grief spiders the size of your hand skulk malevolent as a daddy long legs dances by carelessly dropping a limb to the floor – after all, it has plenty to spare mysterious […]
Impertinent insects – 100 words
Impertinent insects All it takes is one bright day when premature spring warms the roof and I hear buzzing, see a dark flitting at the edge of sight, a flicker of flying filth, dark dot clusters spotting surfaces. That itchy zoom-past and you know peace is impossible. Nature’s design has a place for everything, I […]