The sound of knife on fabric, Like a jackboot on glass, Echoed the stroke of impatience Around the tram terminal, Where the suspicious eyes of the rum cull Spotted the perfumed familiar gloss Of his tragic, unfaithful mistress In a passel of prospective lovers. On her face, a blue and purple discolour As she lay bleeding […]
Day: December 26, 2016
Train Spotting
Troops of ivy-throttled trees line the abandoned railway track. Snorting round the bend, an asthmatic locomotive coughs along to the clickety-clack, smoky echoes of a ghost drumming up memories of day trips to the coast: screaming in a tunnel, waiting on a platform, waving at passengers who always waved back. Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image […]
Sunset on the Coast
a jumble of cliffs sand and chalk slip seaward sunk by a red sun Kim M. Russell, 2016 My response to Carpe Diem #1107 Symphony No. 1 by Giovanni Sgambati Today we have music by Giovanni Sgambati to inspire us: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r76xMtqceBU
Winter Landscape
mid-winter flickers in a complex monochrome touched by a low sun streaking soft amber highlights in a colourless season Kim M. Russell, 2016 My response to Carpe Diem #1106 Symphony No. 11 The Winter by Joachim Raff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkmTKZIwM-w
writing in north norfolk 