Ragrowster
'The dog thought this was fun, and ragrowstered with her under and on the water all the way to Leaning...
Vapour-ringed sun
I recall seeing more vapour-ringed moons than suns, but it may be that I look at the moon more than...
Scruddick, scuddick, scriddick and scrikkit
'... very soon all the trout was gone except a scruddick, or fragment, of the tail.'
Williamson uses 'scruddick' to...
Crisp-winged flies
A symbiosis of hovering birds and fly-pestered bullocks, the darting martins hoovering up bothersome crisp-winged flies.
'Martins twittered along the...
Hollow like …
Did you ever think of the sky as being hollow? I like the image of its domed roundness as the...
Water-lapped trunk
A perfect spot for a hunted otter to hide and rest, to give birth, to raise cubs. The name for...
Like a broken viper
A wildly meandering river likened to a viper broken by a buzzard - Williamson's inventiveness is a wonder, and almost...
The law of life
We need water for life, and life and water share a fundamental law: change. They may also share another, apparently...
O dandelion sun!
A big round dandelion arching the sky - what a deep yellow sun this is, and I like the 'light-smitten...
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