Sunday, June 10, 2007

Eye wear, artistic date and green vegetables.

1. The optician thinks I take good care of my glasses. If only he could see me scrubbing them on the hem of my skirt, putting them in with the washing up, falling asleep with them beside me in bed and forgetting I'm wearing them and trying to rub my eyes.

2. I carve a little space in the day to sit in a coffee shop.

3. Asparagus to nibble while I wait for dinner.

Slow worm, peacock butterfly and striations.

1. A slow worm backs into his burrow, his mild resentful gaze holding ours. 2. Peacock butterfly -- Persian rug colours -- rests open in the...