Justin Marozzi - www.writingredux.com

Like fluid sculptures

A fine idea to describe a flotilla of sail boats, as liquid sculptures, and note too that passing flock of...

Something about this loose, large mixing of sky into sea that evokes a huge basin in which a celestial cake...

What a glorious image, enhanced by the animals trotting past - aggrieved camels I can envisage, but never thought of...

We've had a few rain-dousing days of storminess, and yesterday evening I enjoyed a sky-show of shifting banks of chiaroscuro...

A surprising dimension to flat lands in winter - that they appear all the more horizontal when swathed in mist....

Norfolk is a small Netherlands of flat land and soaring firmament, cloud-churned. My grandmother lived there for about a decade...

Infrastructure likened to a curling serpent, whereas most serpentine similes I've seen have been speed-related. See Tarka the Otter,...

Yesterday a storm-front passed towards the lake (Léman) and France, and from our window, we saw its 'ink-stained sky'.

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Describing the shower of arrows at Thermopylae falling so thick and fast that they blot out the sun's light. Leonidas,...