72 micro-seasons 51

Janey...

Autumn afternoon 

woodsmoke hanging in the air,

featherlight scented

Helen...

Soft, calm, coloured days,

Barely a whisper of wind,

Gold leaves like dropped coins.

Kit...

One of those windy

autumn eves when branches squeak

and leaves shiver down

72 micro-seasons 50

Janey...

Steadying breath now

as autumn blues are threatening -

springtime WILL return

Helen...

Ah but these colours!

Leaves blaze like fiery beacons

In a last hurrah.

Kit...

Fell high day, so still

you can hear, far off, mournful

cows cleaved from their calves

72 micro-seasons 49

Janey...

Chatting with robins,

I try to answer their speech -

corvids caw and croak

Helen...

Harvest moon rising,

A huge silver dinner plate

Or is it her face?

Kit...

The river returns 

to calm after the hurling

of wild wind and rain

72 micro-seasons 48

Janey...

Grey October day,

only the seagulls swoop and call,

and then rain stops play

Helen...

A strange few minutes:

Gold storm-light, like I’m wearing 

Yellow sunglasses.

72 micro-seasons 47

Janey...

A long walk, I'm met

by a bag of ripe russets -

a neighbour's kind tree

Helen...

Spiderweb mornings,

Sunlight slopes through birch branches,

Shadows on the wall.