Category Archives: gogyohka

May – week 3

Posted on May 27, 2011 by claireamy

  our empty nest box ~ the chirping of blue tit chicks in the shop-sign nest ~ how the house creaks catching its breath on silence as night smooths your pillow and tucks in the shape of your absence ~ … Continue reading →

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March – week 4

Posted on March 27, 2011 by claireamy

spring sun … a black and white beetle runs across page 99 ~ my life’s fine balance… watching a magpie tip its tail ~ catkin rain a chaffinch’s tail trembles with song ~ watching finches comb the willow’s rain-washed catkins… … Continue reading →

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March – week 3

Posted on March 19, 2011 by claireamy

savouring the simplicity of this moment daisies return to the lawn ~ spring’s first iris I watch her unfold her blue kimono… the comfort of rituals in this shaken world ~ year of the rabbit every strand of coarse hair … Continue reading →

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March – week 2

Posted on March 13, 2011 by claireamy

March rain falls twice over — half a dozen starlings scatter droplets from the willow’s limbs ~ at dawn the thrum of starlings’ wings the first rush of spring felt in our veins… we awaken together ~ after the rain … Continue reading →

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March – week 1

Posted on March 5, 2011 by claireamy

early March the first whisper of a blue iris ~ how the iris keeps twilight’s counsel… now I regret telling you my deepest secrets ~ like a rainbow in a rain~heavy sky ~ goldfinches in our garden ~ across the … Continue reading →

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February – week 4

Posted on February 26, 2011 by claireamy

no sound in the deepening dusk but the closing of the sparrowhawk’s wings ~ postscript… a flock of starlings fades into grey distance, all that remains of the five lines I dreamed ~ burning a hole through the half~light the … Continue reading →

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February – week 3

Posted on February 19, 2011 by claireamy

sun on willow catkins… the robin’s throat pulses with song ~ moonrise the stillness of bamboo… the salt taste of his tears before they well ~ February rain… winter jasmine cascades over a garden wall ~ the stem of life … Continue reading →

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February – week 2

Posted on February 11, 2011 by claireamy

storybook moon… the charm of a child’s drawing hangs in the night ~ tonight I am the first thin slice of this honeydew moon the cat’s  lovelorn cry a clock of counted stars ~ with each burst of song a thrush unpicks … Continue reading →

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February – week 1

Posted on February 4, 2011 by claireamy

a pocket of sunshine in this grey day — first snowdrops ~ first milk… folding back the red silk sheet of sunrise, in the last drops of moonlight, the blue-white curve of her breast ~ spring is so near and … Continue reading →

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January – week 4

Posted on January 28, 2011 by claireamy

the sky heavy with blue~grey clouds and the echoing song of an unseen robin ~ January strolling down the road to meet me in faded denim patched with birdsong ~ relentless rain… again and again a little fly tries to … Continue reading →

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