2020 Covid-19 Memories
Chris McKinnell, Lady Road Allotments
Blue
I look up at the endless empty sky and think about the deep blue ocean up there. Where once planes flew so easily, like wandering albatross. In truth more like flocks of migrant birds - gannets, gulls, purposefully moving from continent to continent, ceaseless trails and sonic waves. Now it's like the Before time. I look up into endless evening air - two swifts soaring, scissoring, cleaving the high blue ocean, voices jubilant: The sky is ours, they cry, The sky is ours! |
Green
green: unfolding, unfurling, lengthening, deepening, enfolding, enveloping. blue-green, grey-green, olive, lime-green, emerald. energy: earth, sun, water, air. leaf, root, juice, heat. the bare bones are clad again, the deep veins pulsing, green again, green again. |