Tag: Christmas and New Year

The Ant Carries Ahead

Aside Kate@athousandbitsofpaper9 Comments

The small ant struggles beneath the carcasses of crumb it carries I can barely see it’s tiny legs beneath Relentlessly it marches The crumb sways I hold my breath in sympathy And I feel like that is Christmas this year All the plans Preparations The heavy burden it turns into “Drop it, it’s not worth […]

Remedy

Aside Kate@athousandbitsofpaper3 Comments

Rainwater rinses the trees and rooves Draws a curtain around the views Shuttering the attention to the sound of gushing guttering Waterfall stairs Dripping leaves Bare feet sinking into slippery grass We walk past each other, heads bowed behind umbrellas The clouds of the last few days drifting, taking my somber mood with them A […]