Last Apple of Autumn

one apple, alone in the abandoned orchard reddens for winter                                    Patrick Blanche (Tr. Michael R. Burch) fading drone of the last wasps drunk on sadness of sugar                      Kim M. Russell, 9th September 2018 My response to Carpe Diem Tan Renga Challenge Chained Together III: An […]

The End and the Beginning

After the delay to summer’s end, autumn fruits and berries remind us of the taste of summer the luxurious heat the lingering light the genesis of brand new buds of spring red purple gold and brown wrapped in grey mist and the smell of leaves smoke curls from a bonfire long before the chimneys belch […]

Leaf

single yellow leaf the first on the cherry tree it hung there all week yesterday the wind blew strong the yellow leaf has fallen Kim M. Russell, 9th September 2018 My response to Carpe DiemTanka Splendour: Autumn Leaves Tanka Splendour has just been restarted, with the weekly challenge of creating a Tanka on a given […]