Gnats perform a ghostly slow gavotte, gathering like clouds in shafts of light, weaving, willowing wisps of curling smoke, drifting upwards and into the night: gathering, merging and dissipating, solemnly they join the twilight dance, fickle vampires flirting, mating, malign miasma of the Renaissance. Kim M. Russell, 2017 A swarm of gnats. Photograph: Martin Siepmann/Alamy […]
Day: February 13, 2017
Screaming in Spring
At crack of sparrow bone, the dawn chorus begins. I moan when winged visitors make city spirits soar: birds madly squabbling for a morsel fallen from the feeder is less a roar and more a scream. Diligent blackbirds turn over voluminous dead leaves by the shed and a robin settles on the narrow chain fence, all […]
Ikebana
nature’s arrangement maple and chrysanthemum helped by human hands Kim M. Russell, 2017 Image found on Pinterest My response to Carpe Diem #1152 Ikebana I missed the first part of the journey through Japan, the mother of haiku, but I’m picking it up with Ikebana, Japanese floral art. Chèvrefeuille has shared a Facebook group, The World […]
