Tuesday 31 May 2011

Blank-faced

Workmen in luminous jackets and white hard hats are pulling down a fence, dwarfed by the high, blank-faced new building now set free to lean into the street.

Monday 30 May 2011

Liquid

Liquid light pours through a window, flickers like flames across cool shadow and the open, white pages of a book.

Sunday 29 May 2011

Beady

In the small darkness under a parked car, the beady eyes of a squirrel: look right, look left and a mad dash for the nearest garden!

Saturday 28 May 2011

Gloomy

Gloomy clouds descending, pressing down on the day. Not really cold, but a chill stagnation in the air.

Friday 27 May 2011

Constant

Cold air, dark clouds and - was that distant thunder or just a crescendo in the constant background rumble of the city?

Thursday 26 May 2011

Hurried

The footpath resonates with all our hurried steps: grey and greasy, hard and long as the day to come.

Wednesday 25 May 2011

Abstract

The concrete building so intensely grey, the sky this morning so intensely blue that their sharp, intersecting angles evoke an abstract painting.

qv

Tuesday 24 May 2011

Assorted

Assorted teenage girls in brown school uniforms: they cluster and peck like free-range hens.

Monday 23 May 2011

Tantalising

A tantalising sparkle in the air. The trees shift almost imperceptibly. The pavement glints.

Sunday 22 May 2011

Softest

Boistrous rain in the night, but waking again to a sky of the softest blue like a little girl's smocked blue velvet dress.

Tuesday 3 May 2011

Break

Taking
a short
one.

Monday 2 May 2011

Last

Lengthening shadows
in an empty yard -
the last evening.  

Sunday 1 May 2011

Puncturing

A jagged wind
punctures the sky -
holidays ending.