Month: May 2019

Doll Games

I search the garden, behind every bush and tree trunk, in among the trellises of cascading beans and peas, all the places a precocious six-year-old would deem a magical queendom. She wasn’t in her bedroom or the den, not lurking in the ghostly shadows of the infinite corridor, so the garden is the only place […]

Back to the Garden

What will we do when satellites fall from space, when sky is sky and not an overwhelming channel choice? Besides, nature shows would have nothing to show us when most species are extinct. We’ll have to make do with whatever is left in the wilderness of our back garden. Offer me fruit and maybe we […]

Spring Cleaning

The old trellis is still standing, top-heavy with verdant honeysuckle leaves and studded with dark pink buds. Below the greenery, old woody branches tangle with dusty shadows, hunchbacked hollows of musty undergrowth.  Straining against my hands, secateurs crack and break brittle branches, their sharp echoes scattering birds and, deep inside the remains of an old […]

Beautiful Ugliness

banana-tree unworthy to look at beautiful ugliness                                       Yozakura shelter from the pouring rain welcome shadow in the sun                     Kim M. Russell, 2nd May 2019 My response to Carpe Diem #1655 Tan Renga Challenge (2) Beautiful Ugliness This month we are creating short chained verses or […]

Smouldering Fireplace

smouldering fireplace the sweet perfume of burned herbs loneliness grabs my throat                                  Chèvrefeuille spent embers crumble and fall in smoke of burnt-out passion                            Kim M. Russell, 1st May 2019 My response to Carpe Diem #1654 Tan Renga Challenge (1) Smouldering Fireplace Today we have the first episode of May 2019 in a month of Tan […]