Peat-dark waves
A description of wild swans floating on the night sea. I like that Maxwell uses peat, a local material, to...
Hag-ridden night
A sense of a wakeful, traumatic night, ridden by witches and haunted by demons.
'... explains the distress of that...
A weight of glory
Merry Christmas if you celebrate it, and if you don't, may you in any case enjoy bright stars and their...
A long day’s night
As the month of June stretches to a close, I wanted to share this, an image of the day staying...
Moon as feather
A lyrical description of the sun, the moon, and the dreams of an otter - that he might swim, unhunted...
Hollow like …
Did you ever think of the sky as being hollow? I like the image of its domed roundness as the...
Stars like apples
Distant stars appearing so close you could reach up your hand and pick them, like apples in a tree. One...
Stars as pearls
Strings of star-pearls draped around a beauteously bejewelled night!
'The stars were strings of pearls around the...
Communing with the cosmos
Glorious moment in this splendid, human novel: an army officer camped somewhere on the steppe enjoys a moment of embracing...
Jackal-haunted nights
Elsewhere, Ryder describes 'hag-ridden nights', the night being where dangers lurk, real or imagined. May you be...
Blue-black vault
Lopez uses vivid and spare language to describe the equally spare beauty of the Arctic. I liked this image.
‘Blue-black vault...
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