Cynthia Rowe
Confinement
Our house is the cleanest it has ever been since lockdown, not for hygiene reasons but because we saw dust, rust, tarnish, cracks in the walls we had never noticed before, never had time to notice. Poisonous verdigris. . . Out came dusters, drop-sheets, paint brushes, hammers, and gap filler. Our preferred eau de parfum is now the odour of Dulux infused with a soupçon of O-Cedar polish.
#iso baking— weekends our son delivers a warm sourdough loaf
About the Author
Cynthia Rowe is editor of Haiku Xpressions and a past president of the Australian Haiku Society. She has published eight novels and three poetry collections, including Stone Circles, winner of the Snapshot Press eChapbook Competition. Her Japanese genre poetry and other poetic forms have won many awards.