Tissue-thin vulnerability
Among other things, Sea Room is a study of human strategies for survival over millennia, of the fragility and tenacity...
Iris-blue sky
When I think of such a sky, I think of Greece.
'The following morning, the weather had changed...
Milk-blue sky
I hope you find time, now and then, to lie in the long grass while birds fly above you, and...
Unconcerned
I like the notion of a river being slow and wide enough to signal unconcern, and the unconcern likened to a cow...
Weed-slithered rocks
This evokes a few childhood seaside holidays in England, hopping over seaweed-slippery rocks, to play and paddle in rock pools....
Dredger-bucket mouth
You can see this gaping maw hoovering up all in its path.
'Its dredger-bucket mouth agape for the...
As known to me as…
Two in one here, both unfamiliar ways of describing something familiar. Wood knots, if you live with them, do become...
Of storms and carwashes
A carwash captures the all-sloshing, soaking, random, bucketing wetness of a strong storm.
'An Atlantic storm was slashing...
Spring-time welcome
My heart also expands at the spring-time welcome of where I live and where I visit. Here, the detail of...
Wind-coiffed heads
I liked this description of the sea in front of the boat looking like a crowd viewed from behind with...
The tide running with you and the sun out
How many times I've read about exploration, about getting in a boat or a ship and chancing it, and yet...
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