It was a raging sea-magic kind of day, with thunder clouds and wind-whipped waves that made us mermaids forget salty witches. Oblivious to consequence, caught up in the rumpus, we anticipated handsome seamen snatched by squalls from a schooner’s deck, combed out the tangles in our waist-length hair and spread our glistening fish-tails on a […]
Tag: Mythology
Hyacinth
Simple hyacinths assembled in a bowl exude sickly breath of Altschmerz and sorrow. In the cleft lattice of a flower head, a liquid pearl trickles down the insidiousness of a fading petal curl, a reminder that mortals become weak and spent, and what firmness and agility once meant to a young boy who let two […]
Memories of a day at Newgrange
For some reason, the light this morning took me back to a day over thirty years ago. Later comment: I have just read the first six lines and realised the order is wrong. I have changed it now. Newgrange When I took you there Looking for inspiration In an ancient monument Older than Stonehenge And […]
writing in north norfolk 