My consecrated masonry crumbles and the bones of my joists are split and splintered. Grey light filters through shattered slates and windows, chasing dry dust motes through portals without doors. Thick brick dust trickles.My pointed arches barely withstood destructive forces. The only kindness I receive is from pigeons cooing in my beams,roosting in my ruins. […]
Day: September 18, 2016
Still Life with Crab
In the left-hand foreground, balanced on the corner of a table laid with brown and cream linen, is a knife with a decorative ivory handle. Directly behind, a shiny upturned glass on a platter of brass beside a bunch of plump black grapes, just in front of a dish of ruby pomegranate seeds, into which […]
Anticipating Autumn
arid summer creek anticipates a shower tumbling autumn leaves © Kim M. Russell, 2016 My response to Carpe Diem #1057 creek Today we have another episode inspired by Jane Reichhold’s saijiki “A Dictionary of Haiku” and the prompt is creek, a modern kigo from the Summer Terrestrial section. The examples of haiku by Jane are: summer […]
writing in north norfolk 