Brassy

Street-lamps glare against the flat, dense surface of the night sky - like brassy buttons on black velvet.

Turquoise

Late morning, and the sun already so low it dazzles - this brief inverted pool of turquoise sky.

Penetrating

Through the cold air, a penetrating, rasping, vibrating sound - is it a neighbour immoderately blowing his nose, or, from farther off, the brief blast of a power tool?

Seamless

The seamless hissing of rain, coating and streaming from every surface - how does it keep this up without a breath?

Green

Lime-flower tea: diluted essence of green; like a subtle distillation of leaves and grass - you wonder if it's really safe to drink.

Sparkly

Strings of premature white Christmas lights hang like frozen rain: a sparkly backdrop to the white coiffure of the elegant old woman at the window table.

Sepia

Sun on water: flickering sepia reflections in the surface of a muddy puddle resolve into the outline of a tall, nearly bare tree.


For Mindful Writing Day, and resolving to resume daily posting here, maybe try prose again.