Wednesday, March 07, 2012

Brick, japonica and crocuses.

1. A bricklayer making the edging for a drive holds a brick in one hand and his trowel in the other. He tosses the brick end over end a couple of times while he chooses the uppermost surface.

2. Red red red japonica flowers bloom on bare twigs.

3. All I can see over the wall is the grey lip of a raised urn and the white crocuses therein.

Bud vase, tomato and the poem I needed to hear.

1. Among the faded cut daffodils that I'm putting on the compost heap there is one that will do for another day in a bud vase. 2. For th...