Autumn sepia-tints gathering clouds copper: at three o’clock the day is already drawing curtains on a red and white chimney rising from the other bank of the Oder, piercing the horizon, its smoke a white wind sock frozen while the weather takes a breath. © Kim M. Russell, 2016 My response to dVerse Poets Pub Quadrille […]
Tag: Afternoon
A poem prompted by a recent photograph
Afternoon Stroll In the cold light Of a low rolling Watercolour landscape Along wide grassy tracks Brown ridges of coarse stubble Passing wind-twisted hunch-backed trees And giant mounds of muddy sugar beet A colour-wash of beige and brown Interrupted Only By bright red Barn doors