I live with my husband and two cats in a cottage that’s over a hundred years old by a river in the countryside. The garden is lush with grass and damp underfoot, nurturing robust willows and rampant weeds. The house is damp too. In the summer it’s cool and in the winter we have to […]
Day: October 3, 2016
Guttersnipe
I’m just a common snipe skulking in the gutter With my short legs, filthy face, squint and stutter, Cowering from the chorus of curses that they mutter, Outcast, urchin, ragamuffin, nutter. They want to trap this guttersnipe inside a birdcage, Break my thirst for brawls and wrangle with my rage, Button up my cheeky lip […]
October Farewells
migrating swallows break in waves across the sun sobbing their goodbyes © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on www.express.co.uk My response to Carpe Diem Special (2nd guest) Kala Ramesh’s “sunbirds peck” Chèvrefeuille has brought us the first CD Special by our second guest Kala Ramesh, a haiku poet from India who was also featured last year. howling […]