It's Still Life

A View From a Window

The kitchen window
overlooked rosebushes
that nibbled at a lattice frame,
until a gale
blew the whole thing down,
and afterwards
we walked the beach,
the sea hurling rocks at our feet,
and we brought some home,
set them where the rosebushes
used to grow.

Written for dVerse Poets. Quadrille “nibble”.  Image WikiArt: Winter view from our kitchen window in Domobranska 8, Karlovac, by Alfred Freddy Krupa, Date: 1995; Karlovac, Croatia. Creative Commons NonCommercial license.  ©Misky 2022 Shared with #amwriting #apoemaday on Twitter