One day in May The path you walk is impossible, no longer a path, really blocked by unfurling ferns and a jungle of nettles. Brave bluebells bounce but you can’t get near enough for that Instagrammable blue blur – the brambles are a thicket and salady fresh new nettles sprawl upwards. All the weeks […]
A train to meet – 100 words
A train to meet The road into town is a gift of misty valleys, glinting lakes and ‘Look, there, over the station!’ ‘What? Oh, yes’ Clouds of dark swirl together, apart, together twisting grey to darkest black shape of a cobra, shape of a heart a murmuration a boomerang of birds. ‘What kind? Where do […]
Nature’s Day – 100 words
Swallows – 100 words
Swallows. The pause year, when this was building site, they spat mud bricks under timber eaves and peacefully shat down unfinished walls. I moved in when they went to Africa – a cuckoo. In spring bird brains programmed to return. And return. Thwarted by slippery cladding: returned unnested, they found another perfect niche. A niche […]
Kisses – 104 words
Kisses are strange. I don’t mean the open-mouth eat-you-up heart-pounding type. No, that’s normal for a human animal going about its reproduction, but all the others, the mwa mwa cat’s arse puckered lip variety that are weird. I didn’t kiss my brand-new babies, I nuzzled and sniffed them, filling my soul with the smell and […]