Hawthorn Diaries 2019-2020
MARCH

08.03.2019 (after a poem by Mary Webb)


06.03.2019 A haw lantern

05.03.2019 Zig-zag

04.03.2019 Always coming, always going.

Work in progress for Hawthorn Diaries: March. 03.03.2019


In The Haw Lantern 1987 Seamus Heaney these berries Diogenes’ lanterns: ‘so that you end up scrutinised from behind the haw....’
‘and you flinch before its bonded pith and stone,
its blood-prick that you wish would test and clear you,
its pecked-at ripeness that scans you, then moves on’.
