the first lamp

flickers into being

her fingers trace

the rose waiting

for a lover

(Tim Gardiner & Tiffany Shaw-Diaz)

*

despite the hour

the loneliness

of her belief

a church bell rings

within sunset haze

(Tim Gardiner & Tiffany Shaw-Diaz)

*These tan renga were inspired by The flower seller by Sir Alfred Munnings and published in issue 12.1 of Twelve Rivers (a journal of the Suffolk Poetry Society)