A project for the summer, you said, shaking the yellow curls on your head and, opening up your sweaty hand, offered me hard seeds with zebra bands. The teacher had given you a little sack and, like Jack’s mother, I was full of doubt, prepared to throw them out. Where would we grow sunflowers in […]
Month: March 2017
Queen of the Night
she is scented smoke curling across hot rooftops petals wide open Kim M. Russell, 2017 Persian tobacco (Nicotiana alata) Credit: Photo by Franco Giordana found on luirig.altervista.org My response to Carpe Diem #1166 Nightflower Today Chèvrefeuille has shared with us a poem by Hafez (or Hafiz), whose poems every Iranian can recite, often using them to […]
Scent of a Rose
the scent of a rose promise of summer gardens among desert sands Kim M. Russell, 2017 Image found on Pinterest -Musée du Louvre My response to Carpe Diem #1165 roses We are visiting Persia, nowadays Iran, to explore its relationship with poetry. Chèvrefeuille reminds us of great Persian poets, for example Rumi and Hafez (or […]
writing in north norfolk 