Apple Feast

By Dr. Frances-Ann Norton

Quiet lived day, little flowers of happiness.

The time to sit on this autumn morning looking out of the window at our garden.

The blackbirds are here again and a small family sit on the garden table.

A feast of windfall apples I have laid.

Slowly turning from yellow to red to brown.

Daily small pecks appear on some of them as the blackbird take their fill of fruit.

The pecking and eating gets deeper into the apple

so they become translucent as eggshell.

Hollowed out, firefly candle glow, warmed from the inside by the autumn sun.

And my thought.

I was glad to have gathered these fruits as feast for the birds.

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Frances-Ann Norton received a BA hons in Design from University of Staffordshire. She holds an MA in ceramics from Cardiff Metropolitan University. Most recently she completed a PhD and doctoral study on the pedagogy of critical thinking from University of Sunderland. She lives in Leeds UK where she is course leader of MA Creative Practice at Leeds Arts University, teaching aspiring creative practitioners. Her work deals with autoethnographic folk narrative, Franciscan spirituality, magic realism, and reflections on being an artist in Bronte’s Yorkshire.