Wednesday, April 30, 2008
:poems up + autumnal:
My poems are up on Lumiere. (Big thank you, Lumiere, for publishing me.) The first one ‘Spell For Cold Weather’ is partially about longing for winter in an unusually hot autumn. I wrote it a long time ago, but that could be this autumn which just seems to carry on being sunny and bright...although thanks to the cooler temperatures of Taupo and my parent’s giant oak tree - I did get a taste of autumnal-ness whilst there. I do love kicking leaves.
(I remember learning the word ‘autumnal’ in my first year of university - then I went to the park and ran around kicking leaves saying “It’s so autumnal! It’s so autumnal!” Yes, I know I’m a geek.)
Do Americans use the word ‘autumnal’?
I also love the words sassafras, epiphany and the phrase “twiggy pea sticks”.
