Easy to write on your ‘phone.( Evernote simple). And great fun to be concise (50 words) yet still offer up a glimpse of something with a hint of a tale!
Morning cigar in the yard.
Skeletal trees fingered against the ink dark sky.
The roofs austere , secretive as my smoke climbs towards just one .
We’re 150 years apart. She doesn’t know I’m here yet.
(But she will) .
There’s my mistress calling.
”Yes, ma’am”. Better go and make up a fire.
Short but complete! (but suggestive of more?!)
Sensuous yet perhaps sinister, (‘But she will)’ I found this intriguing and am impressed with the conjuring of a complex, alluring mood in such a small number of words!