Wild-looking grass
One of the landscape changes of recent years is the steady return of wild-looking grass where previously there were endless,...
An event, a happening
Mandelstam lived in a brutal place and time, costing him years of freedom and ultimately, his life. Â All the...
The seeds of civilization
Saint-Exupéry uses wheat as a metaphor for civilization, seeds stored and sown in order to take root in people, something...
A gardener to the roots
This gardener, who tends the castle grounds of the monstrous pile of Gormenghast, is driven by something more than the...
Purple-streaked stems
I never knew that hemlock grew alongside English fields,
Of purple hue, it poisons you, and life to death it...
Thorn-studded bats
No, this isn't a description of a gothic night-flight of vampiric birds, he is referring rather to the big, flat...
Red-tinged snow
No, not blood-stained, but a kind of lichen bringing the red of Snow White’s ruby mouth to the snow.
Source:...
Yellow-flowered silverweed
Looking up this flower (potentilla anserina), I discover the identity of a mystery plant I bought from a seedling community...
Of perfumed poems
Lichen like cracked lacquer
I imagine here the wetted orange lichen that grows flat on rocky surfaces, like tiny star-bursts of gold.
Bright-tinted shrubs
Autumn alights with bright-tinted shrubs. And yes, you need to be on the alert to perceive their full beauty.
'A...
The lovable vigour of weeds
Yes, I know what he means. I'm becoming increasingly tolerant of weeds and have started protecting and even nurturing some....
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