Archive - Sep 2009

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Images of green

Journeys take you out of yourself, out of your normal landscape and its often-heard music.  Today I saw poppies, bright splashes of red to surprise the green, growing in patches on verges and here and there, oh joy, in swathes on country fields.  Here and there, too, a cluster of white, elderflowers like large lace buttonholes of clotted cream and swaying wildflowers waving above the grass  read more »

The Scapegoat (Leviticus 16.1-22)

The wilderness calls.
I can hear the flap of its canvas,
feel the drought in its breath,
smell the baked bark of stone  read more »

Umbria

Thanks and oh yes
for this bright-folding day
green-girdled and sun-stretched,
heavy with lazy stillness,
stirred but not shaken by  read more »