Outside is a garden, wild and green, from my study window seen. It’s tangled with branches and shadowed with leaves: my garden has the coolest breeze. The riotous grass is sunlight-dappled, scattered with plum, quince and apple. The dome of willows is a hideaway where cats, deer and pheasants play. Outside the window are trees […]
Day: July 18, 2017
Echoes of an Earlier Landscape
Early light has been diffused to an apricot glow, dappled with fragments of cool, grey shadow, echoes of the wet earth of an earlier landscape. Soggy fields and marshes suffered centuries of drought; now precious juttings of sea-worn granite lure us out to where water once teemed with life. Now all that’s left are sweeping […]
Demons
In the shattering pangs of sadness, bring me nepenthe so I may climb into vague forgetfulness and abdicate world-weariness. Neolithic numbness turns me to sallow stone, my only hope has perished and left me all alone. The four corners of this earth grow ever near, closing in day by day, accompanied by uncontrollable, irrational, offhand […]
Gokiburi
in the sudden light shadowy corners bristle scuttling cockroaches Kim M. Russell, 2017 Image found on Pinterest My response to Carpe Diem #1221 Cockroach (Gokiburi) In a new episode in this month full of kigo (seasonword) for summer, Chèvrefeuille has surprised us with an unusual classical one: ‘cockroach’.
Departure #4
no one hears the waves as they depart unnoticed a deserted beach Kim M. Russell, 2017 My response to Carpe Diem Haiku Kai Autumn Retreat 2017 “departure”
writing in north norfolk 