Thanks to Better Read Than Dead bookshop in Newtown for including my shortlisted story in the competition anthology 2019.
Author: jthorndyke
In My Garden
autumn leaves
and winter-flowering camellias
coexist in my garden . . .
freesias are budding
today it feels like spring
Julie Thorndyke
The turning year . . .
the solstice
steals into my calendar
too soon
the turning of the year
hastens our time of parting
Julie Thorndyke
Haiku
Julie Thorndyke
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Missy in a moment of identity crisis
Mrs Rickaby Arrives!
Back to the Books
one-by-one
bright beads on the abacus
are slid home—
the changing pattern
of my daughter’s bookshelves
Julie Thorndyke
Tannenbaum
five kids and mum
trudging all the way home
with our fresh-cut pine—
until an angel crammed us
into his v-dub beetle
Julie Thorndyke
Winter
the thin whistle
of mum’s breakfast kettle
. . . bare toes on lino
school milk
striped paper straws
pleated into submission
half-yearly report
my frosty teacher
thaws
red cheeks
stung by sun and wind
our long walk home
shortest day
dad’s chaffed hands
light the gas fire
Julie Thorndyke
