River of Stones '12/#29

Small Stone #29

On the compost heap

Last week’s cherry tomatoes, still intact

Untouched by little vole and mousey teeth

Co-habitants with the wood-lice,

The still-wriggling, brandling worms,

The deep-in-cobwebbed spiders,

All seeing out the winter

In their cosy, lidded wooden bunker.

Comments

[Weaversjournal.wordpress.com]

This made me smile Roz. I visited our compost bin today to deposit a rotting squash. Under the lid was a mass of heaving, wiggling worms - all working away even in the cold...

[Teri]

You have written it into coziness!