We are filling the air with everything:our piping calls, the feathers welose on our weary flight. Seehow overhead cloud hidesus from one another,as we herald the arrival of autumn. One thingyou must remember is that we return from our northern nests alwaystogether, while some just wantto stop off on the way south, others long tostay […]
Tag: Pollution
In My Grief A Crab
Grief is a tangled mess,a knot of ghosts and memories,its sting is in life’s unevents:a hermit crab without a shellmoving in to plastic and metaltrash; a honey bee poisoned by pesticide;a wildflower wilting in heat by a roadside. Kim M. Russell, 8th July 2024 Image by Mark Harpur on Unsplash It’s the second Monday in […]
An octave inspired by an article in today’s Times
Draining the Reefs of Colour Algae-nourished coral blooms in vivid hues Spawning a reef of pinks and blues Triggered by length of days And the cycle of the moon In danger of erosion Resulting from pollution Bleaching coral to bone white spectres Draining the reefs of colour © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Free image found on wallpapers.brothersoft.com […]
