Thursday, February 26, 2009

A kindness, a frog and smoke.

1. She has fallen asleep in the drawing room. A carer comes by and moves her glasses to a safer spot.

2. It's a dead leaf on the platform. No, it's a large frog taking the air on a mild February night.

3. Outside the hotel on the corner, two men are smoking and talking quietly in the dark. The smell of their weed has something to say.

Rind, mustering and moon.

1. The crack of pumpkin rind as I bring the knife round the lantern lid. 2. Now they've been pointed out to me, everywhere I go, I see t...