Winter Garden 13: Inside/Outside

Inspired by Regine’s answer to the question What would feature in your winter garden?

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Winter Garden 11

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Winter Garden 9: She had forgotten the snow

She had forgotten the snow how it waits, silently   and then tumbles – as though pushed   makes her blink.   She had forgotten the snow its attention to detail.   There is a worry – about ice and falling, about aeroplanes and metal. She remembers how much she likes the colour red.   [...]

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Winter Garden 8: glass

Inside, the cactus spills its blousy pink flowers over the windowsill, their mouths reaching for floorboards that used to be oak trees. Outside, the day holds its dull skies as though it’s as bored of winter as she is. She stands at the window and considers the abandoned garden – lines of shrivelled fuchsia leaves, [...]

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Winter Garden 6: Like an island

It was an old, white dinner plate, with an unfussy, rounded rim and dishwasher-tired glaze. It was perfect.   ~ A piece of mirror from her mother’s craft box ~ ~ Transparent plastic straws ~ ~ Thin lines of cotton wool teased from the block in the bathroom ~ ~ A white napkin left over [...]

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Winter Garden 5: (often enclosed)

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Winter Garden 4: start | stop

start   falling drop apples drop scattered drop apples drop autumn   stop   inspired by Laura Harford’s winter garden photos

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Glass

Winter’s coming, she said, drawing the bedroom curtains to reveal condensation, like mildew across the glass. She remembered a weekend in Copenhagen, years ago, climbing a thin spiral staircase to the top of the Winter Garden. She’d followed the narrow, metal-worked, platform; drawn her gloved fingers across cold-sweating glass. And beneath her, a cacophony of [...]

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