The Grassling, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
Today’s page is from Elizabeth-Jane Burnett’s The Grassling. Elizabeth-Jane Burnett is a writer of English and Kenyan heritage and is the author of Swims and A Social Biography of Contemporary Innovative Poetry Communities. The Grassling was published in 2019 by Allen Lane. Thank you very much to Roxani for donating a copy The Nature Library!
Last week we wrote down a quote from this page and reading it again in full it feels like a fitting start to Page a Day. A gentle reminder of the different ways we can ease and lighten, how we can reach each other over distances great and small, with or without words. The Grassling reads the way being outside feels — it flows and drifts and carries you along, sprinkling sights and sounds and smells that stop you in your tracks, shifting your direction to follow them.
This chapter, Daffodil, is followed by Eighty Yellows for my father’s eightieth birthday, a comprehensive list of yellows Burnett sees from Birmingham to Tiverton Hospital. We took advantage of today’s elusive sunshine to do the same and outdoors or within your home, please feel very free to let us know what you find.
daffodils
LITTER
lichen
beach litter
picnic table
Swizzels
license plate
WAIT
no stopping
Barassie Chippy
schoolgirl’s raincoat
license plate
license plate
high vis
parking lines
