Rookery<\/p>\n
Crackling with rooks,
\nWinter trees reverberate
\nwith ragged, black fruit.<\/p>\n
(31\/11\/09)<\/p>\n
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Phew! Wild winds, deep, torrential floods, brief gaps of white sunlight glittering off the pools and wet everything. All-powerful Winter.<\/em><\/p>\n Symphony<\/p>\n Chimneys thrum rhythm, every gap sings out, (23\/11\/09)<\/p>\n ************************<\/p>\n Crazy weather for weeks. Regular, heavy rain interspersed by capricious winds. Garden furniture flung around the lawns by polter-gusts, flagstones slick with unseen mosses, trees stripped and battered. Cows stand, arse to ditch. Clothes hang, heavy-limbed on a drooping, dripping line.<\/em><\/p>\n Towels, shirts, trousers Sudden excitement! The wild dance short-lived, (16\/11\/09)<\/p>\n ***********************<\/p>\n Windy day. November<\/p>\n In the yard’s eddy, (09\/11\/09)<\/p>\n ***************************<\/p>\n The month has begun as the old one ended, misty and wet. Winter’s here now but it’s still mild – a little colder, granted, but not bad.<\/em><\/p>\n November mist<\/p>\n Colour-draining fog Throaty corvid cry (01\/11\/09)<\/p>\n **************************<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rookery Crackling with rooks, Winter trees reverberate with ragged, black fruit. (31\/11\/09) ************************ Phew! Wild winds, deep, torrential floods, brief gaps of white sunlight glittering off the pools and wet everything. All-powerful Winter. Symphony Chimneys thrum rhythm, the roof tiles … Continue reading
\nthe roof tiles tattoo the beat,
\nwires pluck harmonics,<\/p>\n
\nthe whole house is becoming
\na wind instrument.<\/p>\n
\nhang, sodden and un-moving
\nhours and hours on end.<\/p>\n
\nThe wind whips up a frenzy,
\nflailing arms and legs.<\/p>\n
\nshirts darkening like the sky,
\ntails down, rain stops play.<\/p>\n
\nrattling leaves play chasing,
\nreliving their youth.<\/p>\n
\nopalesces the hillside.
\nLife in a snow globe.<\/p>\n
\nand lesser sounds of small birds
\nemphasise the mist.<\/p>\n