My response to Sacha Black’s #1000SPEAK #WRITESPIRATION 76 Alice had lost her balance. At thirty years old she couldn’t walk in a straight line and she wasn’t even drunk. The neat, flower-printed mums at the school gate tutted and whispered; when she tried to speak, the slurred words that burnt her lips and dripped […]
Day: January 20, 2016
Broken Gate
My response to Carpe Diem Tokubetsudesu #66 Teika’s Ten Tanka Techniques by Jane Reichhold Creak of broken gate Buffeted by winter wind Wood is grey and bare Held up by long grass and weeds Rusty latch bleeds on fingers © Kim M. Russell, 2016