Thursday 30 June 2011

Uneven

A thin ankle falters, high heel caught in the uneven pavement - for a moment it looks like a pile-up, then she rights herself and the surge of walkers moves on.

Wednesday 29 June 2011

Rosy

She has rosy cheeks. Can black cheeks be rosy? Perhaps it's a reflection of the pink tint in her cap of shiny, straightened hair.

Tuesday 28 June 2011

Tense

The darkness deepens
and grows tense - everything sweats
as we wait for rain.

Monday 27 June 2011

Dissonant

4 am: the dissonant croaking of an unfamiliar bird cuts through the thick damp air that heat will soon burn away.

Sunday 26 June 2011

Sudden

In this sudden heat,
slow-moving shadow puppets
on the raw, bright ground.

Saturday 25 June 2011

Skimpy

Pale girls in skimpy dresses tramp the grimy streets, on their determined way to somewhere.

Friday 24 June 2011

Vague

On the side of the street in deep shadow floats a vague, slight figure in a long, dark dress. Blink and she's gone.

Thursday 23 June 2011

Scruffy

Outside the junk shop, five broken, battered kitchen chairs with blue seats are lined up expectantly like very scruffy baby birds.

Wednesday 22 June 2011

Shiny

The heaving rain has stopped as quickly as it started. Dazzling sunshine sweeps the shiny street; steam rises from the puddles.

(Rather a lot of weather here lately - it's been quite hard to see around it)

Tuesday 21 June 2011

Today's is here.

Monday 20 June 2011

Trapped

A pair of light aircraft buzz and bumble fretfully, trapped by the lid of low clouds.

Sunday 19 June 2011

Black

The church spire bursts
a ballooning black cloud,
unleashing torrents.

Saturday 18 June 2011

Red

After the storm,
sunshine licks
the fallen red petals.

(Fiona and Kaspa's wedding day - 
send them a 'small stone'.)

Friday 17 June 2011

Lurid

The pounding, sloshing rain, the chill, the lurid orange lights, the siren howling and the howling child, face downwards in a puddle.

Thursday 16 June 2011

Glistening

Water bounces on the glistening, slippery path. Everyone walks carefully. Soft footfalls, noisy rain.

Wednesday 15 June 2011

Phantom

Always beautiful, now half the size she was, she still lumbers, hauling a phantom weight.

Tuesday 14 June 2011

Unknown

The sunshine strokes and dazzles, prods and hovers, lingers, rippling, insistent on something as yet unknown.

Monday 13 June 2011

Vibrating

A runner threads her way through the surge of shuffling commuters, lifts a foot and searches, vibrating with quiet energy, for a place to put it down.

Sunday 12 June 2011

Aching

Das Lied von der Erde: I listen lying down, feel my stomach muscles unclench, my hair want to leave my head and float away.

Saturday 11 June 2011

Mellow

At six the bells are pealing from St Clement's pale tower. Their mellow resonance outplays the frantic roaring of the traffic.

Friday 10 June 2011

Gathered

Nine of them, gathered around an outside cafe table. One, at the head, is speaking, waves his arms - conductor of some group project for the day.

Thursday 9 June 2011

Wood-panelled

The old, wood-panelled walls seem to foster a slower, deeper, more relaxed conversation - or at least the illusion of this.

Wednesday 8 June 2011

Unadorned

Outside the Travelodge, a flat, unadorned building with masked windows, a woman stands smoking, her watery green jacket almost bright against the pallid wall.

Tuesday 7 June 2011

Monochrome

Under the long line of trees, a rippling, monochrome shadow-world distinct from the rest of the clashing, chaotic street scene.

Monday 6 June 2011

Mashed

The mashed purple flesh of fallen petals is an impasto painting, increasingly abstract, dissolving already as the rain continues.

Sunday 5 June 2011

Dirty

The rain is dirty, sticky, simultaneously cold and warm - surely this cannot be mainly water?

Saturday 4 June 2011

Wilder

The wind that purrs and rattles in the tall beeches fringing the park tells of warmer, wilder places.

Friday 3 June 2011

Wheeled

Lurid teeshirt, tight trousers and very high-heeled bright pink shoes: tenderly manoeuvring a harp in a wheeled case, she defies every stereotype of the lady harpist.

Thursday 2 June 2011

Jagged

The fierce contrast of sunshine and shadow makes the jagged metal outline of the railway bridge's underside so sharp it could slice you.

Wednesday 1 June 2011

Brown

The brown, barely moving river has a suddenly eerie look - the whole city starting to congeal.