Monday, 16 May 2022

French Window - a full moon memory by Val Pedrick

illustration: Val Pedrick nee Plante

 











‘Mrs Bradshaw’ beckons

her English blooms

red as poppies

wave on leggy stems

translated

into Gallic clay

 

Shifting shadows deepen

shuttered window’

indigo haze, chase

gold-encrusted

lizards into

sun baked walls

 

A yellow oriole haunts

the ghosts of poplars

whisper through

cloistered groves

and a striking snake

escapes into secret depths

 

Champagne-blossomed

an elder tree amplifies

the nocturne

of a nightingale

and sunset floods

cornfields blood red

 

At an open window

the Englishwoman bathes

in the cool silk

of a full May moon

and listens

for the quiet river

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