STAR-GAZING

                Stargazing is beautiful in southern night. The heavens partake in wondrous light.        Some of the stars appear shy.              Behind clouds they lie.                   ...

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       cat on foggy day hard to see in frosted park   green eyes on their own...

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AMAZED BY TURQUOISE

Amazed by turquoise in the street lights, playing out again in tiny puddles. There they are, on each side of the road. Why the turquoise, Council? But don't answer - they're amazing... Holy turquoise, holier than thou....

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SILVER BROOCH

silver brooch on back clasp claiming our attention light splits it in two...

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WINE

Wine, not cheap; sparkling in a place half-spent and yearning for my tongue. It is proud of rising bubbles, as sees them small  as in champagne.  It admires its tumbler, for it missed out school on day of proper glasses when the teacher held one out to class and magnified the wine....

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CLOUDS OF DDT

Playing to clouds of DDT the children ran screaming into it - hurried playtime in the mist... Ten minutes of forbidden fog, forgetting that it was forbidden... Glorious, thickened, smoky smog....

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TULIP

Ladies - those who lunch - are lazy now Their mothers went to work earned bread They slaved - followed clock - earned a pittance but their daughters gossip - Tulip She's bad - won't wake up Ladies gossip Tulip's much worse than they Give up...

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