Sketchbook  Brian Strand, UK

 

 

A Quintain of Cinqku #4 a thick mist blankets the winter dawn— necklaced jewels bedeck the hedge     #9 five toes and a pad imprint the snow— hunger brings a stranger at night     #10 winter arrives late— in the forest a stoat melts into a snowdrift     #23 the elk cub misses the herd's retreat— a lone wolf howl calls to the pack     #24 ice bears lie in wait in hunger's grip— a seal cub writhing in death's throes

 

Cinquain  A Funeral Offering Epilogue Night chills the ageing bones— blowing on the east wind flurries, fine and dry settle on new graves.     Obsequy Huddled together black umbrellas mob the hearse— in sheeting rain, they separate in twos.

 

 

a Tetractys Candlemas midst hedgerows turning green— nature's pastiche slowly awakens from deep winter sleep.

 

 

Brian Strand, UK Elements of Change set in steel— floating horizontal blocks.

 

 

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