Pill pack

Empty pill packet. Each blister crumpled like an old volcano. The broken foil twangs. Seven days, seven capsules, one blank to fit neatly on the rectangular pack. Expiry date 04/2015 but empty pack will not expire in landfill.

Hyacinth

Blooms blue to violet crunched over lime green leaves

Their pungent, sweet smell swells to the corners of the room

2014 Small Stones

From today, 1 January 2014, I will be repeating my previous Small Stones Challenge. I choose something to reflect upon and write a few words. Simple.

Life class

What are you thinking?
Do they like my body?
Am I too fat?
I want to move.

Little urn

The delight of  miniature things
A grecian urn without an ode
What for? Why? Who knows?

world within a world

He carves small, complete worlds in cool marble pillars. Pillars and arches of a fantasy place hidden in the stone.

Willow, willow

Nature’s abstraction

Willows weep