It was a dull day in the park yesterday, but amid the grey there were a couple of brighter images: there were a few pools of daffodil yellow and the willows along by the river were gauzy with green, waiting for day or two of sunshine to turn them into a mass of caterpillar catkins.
There was also this magnificent flower which I think must be a Helleborus Orientalis hybrid, perhaps a Red Lady. I presume from the fact today is Palm Sunday it can be classified as a Lenten Rose:
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Tag: hai’ku
July noon
Cars crouch low, jealous
of their shadows
A swallowtail dallies
among flower-bright trash
Wasps crawl terraza tables
where frosted glasses stood
Stray dogs sprawl
laughing in the heat
The city trembles
fortunes
Three – four – nine – two; three – one:
random magpies map my life
in black and white.
remember, remember
Bonfire night:
the wide-eyed moon looks down
on multi-coloured stars
pallette of greys*
silver
ripple and pause
squirrel
squirrel
nibble and paws
silver
*(Alternatively: “palate of greys”)
don't confuse the narrator 