Daddy’s Purple Boots

You leave without your lost goodbyes
at the break of dawn – before I rise
I listen to an empty house, the ceaseless dripping
of a bathroom tap you said you’d fix. I’m slipping
into loneliness already and it’s only eight.
What should I even bother? It’s too late
to say I’m sorry or I love you, I suppose.
You left your boots, I see – the ones with purple toes
I bought you when we toured the hippy rounds
of carnivals and festivals and sodden circus grounds.
You with your accordion and me with my bodhran.
I’m not surprised you left them. You couldn’t get them on.

Playing Disparate Parts

After Sunday they returned
to their homes and their gardens
and their picket white fences
and their Subaru four-by-fours,
forgetting the town
where they’d eaten ice-cram
and watched as two kings battled
for control of the land.

The Oak king won
as he always does
to look after the summer and the harvest
and the maidens in their white lace gowns
that cavort in the sunshine
and howl at the Beltane Moon.

The Holly king limps away
to hide until winter
when his brides are filled with heat
and need and rutting in the woods
with their flushed-pink cheeks
pressed against cold snow.

3 1/2" by 2 1/2"
$25

Laverstone Tor

3 1/2" by 2 1/2"
$25

Nadia as a Crow

3 1/2" by 2 1/2"
sold

Fetishe #1

3 1/2" by 2 1/2"
$25

May Challenge 01

3 1/2" by 2 1/2"
$25

Sansuriel

Meme from moonshark

the idea is to go to your 5th photo file and open the 5th picture, post that photo and then tell us about it. Then tag 5 more people...

A slight cheat because the fifth folder contained photos of other people, so this is the fifth photo from the fourth folder on my pictures drive.

Sansuriel
Watercolour on paper

This was an illustration for An Ungodly Child of the angel Sansuriel.
It's semi abstract and to be honest I never used it. I did have it for sale for a while. Did it get sold? I don't recall. Only a couple of people have ever bought my work so if I don't have it (and we're talking boxes and boxes of paintings) I know where it'll be.

I still like this painting very much.

I'm not tagging - Do the meme if you feel like it and let me know in comments.

Haiga, bridge, watercolour, blue bench