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Category: village life
de tiendas I
One thing that remains confusing about living abroad, even after so many years, is the the shopping.
Not the opening hours, this time – though that’s a subject that can always get me ranting happily, and which I’ll no doubt come back to – but the shops themselves and where you need to go to buy different things.
You’d think that mostly there’d be a one-to-one equivalence between shops in different countries, wouldn’t you? But back in French class, in the 70s, I remember seeing that this isn’t the case. Continue reading “de tiendas I”
autumn hai’ku
From among the fallen leaves, the wind
lifts a broken butterfly wing
and gives it flight.
autumn evenings
I was a bit ahead of myself when I said it was autumn on the 17th, as in fact the equinox didn’t happen till September 22nd. But there was an autumnal edge to the air last week, although it feels even more ‘edgy’ now the rains have started.
This limits my evenings spent writing under the vine but there will still be plenty of days ahead when it’s warm enough for an hour or two outside once I’ve finished in the studio for the day.
These three short pieces were all written under such circumstances, Continue reading “autumn evenings”
hai’ku
After the rain
the tousled heads of corn;
a scarecrow army.
don't confuse the narrator 