72 micro-seasons 40

Janey...

Mountains, silence, sheep -

late summer ferns remember

childhood holidays

Helen...

Lake District wedding:

Disney butterflies join in,

Smiles, songs, mountains, vows.

Kit...

Following heron

downstream - ash feathered signpost

waits on rocks, flies on ...

72 micro-seasons 39

Janey...

Fledging wren...

By the cruel road,

flutter of feathers and bone -

that such things exist!

Helen...

This ragged season:

Damp grass and chill at sunrise,

Butterflies at noon.

Kit...

Dead-heading daisies 

Hundreds of tired wind-burnt souls

Flock to compost heav'n

72 micro-seasons 38...

Janey...

Power lines a stave,

birds perched black against the sky -

notes about to fly

Helen...

Sprinkling of apples,

Tight pale greening balls of light,

Waiting for harvest.

Kit...

I can hear the owl

quartering the fields, hooting

through thick warm darkness

72 micro-seasons 37...

Janey...

Blue late-summer dawn,

a wild skein of crying geese

unravels the sky

Helen...

August’s jewel box,

Overflowing: purples, reds,

Hot crocosmia.

Kit...

Three picnic beetles

feed on the ragged remains

of a fly-blown mole

72 micro-seasons 36

Janey...

Saw a wren today,

its poetic busy life

amid my concerns

Kit...

Ode to a harebell ...

Everything about 

you is delicate - lilac

filigree line song

Helen...

Fat candy floss clouds

Hanging heavy in hot skies:

Summer holidays.

72 micro-seasons 35

Janey...

Shimmering sunset

over the still summer sea -

Then again the rain

Helen...

Last days of July:

Rose bay willow, meadowsweet,

Rowans already.

Kit...

A glut of rainbow

chard and lettuces - we gorge

quick before they bolt

72 micro-seasons 34

Janey...

Then after the rain-

fall, honeysuckle sweetness

drifting in the air

Kit...

Clinging to Yorkshire

Fog, soldier beetles nimbly

shin the long bent stem

Helen...

On high wires, swallows

chattering unsettle me.

Please don’t go, not yet.