Grubby

Tepid rain -
a grubby bathroom
with not much light.

Trickle

Rainwater trickles
to the end of the street - these days
to the end of the year.

Distant

Chilean red wine -
grapes from a distant country
startle my tired tongue.

Afternoons

Winter afternoons,
the sun in your eyes, then gone -
childhood memories.

Fading

by noon
the blue sky fading
to white

Slanting

Again today, in defiance of the forecast and just before sunset, here it is: the bar of pale, unexpected light slanting through the window and across my desk.

Black and white

In the park, two spaniels play-fighting: one, headbutted, keels lightly over, roly-poly black and white down the leaf-strewn grassy slope.