Grape-blue landscape
A darkly overcast day with louring purple-stained clouds, and a storm brewing, until you read the context in which Lee...
Spring-time welcome
My heart also expands at the spring-time welcome of where I live and where I visit. Here, the detail of...
Siegfried-haunted Drachenfels
An image from a Caspar David Friedrich painting.
'The country sped downstream at a great pace and the Siebengebirge and...
Flat-boughed cedar
A favourite tree - I remember the first one I consciously noticed, said to be 1,000 years old, some of...
Topaz-coloured eyes
Adrienne is far the most interesting female character in this monumental trilogy, and there is great finesse in the author's...
Wine-drenched blubber
Swelter, the chef, is vast and rolling excess to Flay's ascetic skinniness, and here presents himself in a stupor. The...
Lead-coloured cloud
This ‘lead-covered’ cloud symbolises the mood of the family as they approach the ‘grim North’, and soon they smell the...
Mastiff-like tenacity
Such jaw-gripping tenacity is used to describe the force that the ending '-cious' adds to words, as in the word...
Brave and courageous
Xiong means ‘male’, ‘grand’, or 'having great power or influence', and is used in the word for ‘hero’.  Here, combined...
Death-haunted aubade
This triologism emerges from Seamus Heaney's imagining how Philip Larkin would have written The Divine Comedy, triggered by his reading...
Time-dimmed benevolence
This makes me think of grainy photos of harmless-looking old men whom you then discover are former Nazi or other...
Lute-shaped sabretache
A fine triologism and, for me, a new word, clearly demonstrating that I don't mix in adequately aristocratic circles. A...
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