FebulousFebruary 2025: Lost and Found

Jen loves sweet peas

 

 

There’s a home grown movie screening on our window sill

frame by frame by silent frame

generating

miniscule

movement.

 

Slow motion

 

Opening close up shot is my index finger

pressing 2 hard seeds deep into a small pot of dark compost

then filling in the dimples

with the love of an attentive mum tucking in her toddler.

 

Shot widens revealing seventeen pots more

a mix of black and terracotta

gathering with the expectancy of baby birds

warm in the nest

 

Zoom in and slow fade on my index finger

pressing 2 hard seeds deep into a…….

 

 

 

2 weeks later

 

pan of sprouting seeds

some tips like shiny youth burst towards the light

others already straggling green shoots of varying heights

 

 

4 weeks later

 

morning scene opens on my micro jungle of leafy green shoots

tracking shot follows me out to the garden

past deep purple swaying anemones

lantern fallen over through the night storm while we deeply slept

a pile of logs and kindling glowing in the sunrise

zoom in on my hands stripping back branches

to make a pile of small twigs

 

close

 

 

 5 weeks later

 

By popular demand there’s a re-run of the movie

 

 

 6 weeks later

 

opening wide shot of pots of greens wandering round the makeshift canes

while others stray

and  there’s a stirring in the earth of the newbies

 

 

 

I’m anticipating an absolute abundance of sweet peas

to plant out for you

many coloured blooms and particular delicate scent

bringing you pleasure

between May to September

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fiona Thomson

59

Westgate, Kent