Trio

See also the previous posts:
• Boys Will Be Boys III
• Dancing Hares

Image: Subjects and photographer unknown.

Hare Décor XVIII

Image: The Leveret.

Tan Lines

Image: Subject and photographer unknown.

Song in Autumn

By Djuna Barnes

The wind comes down the creeping night
And you, my love, are hid within the green
Long grasses; and the dusk steals up between
Each leaf, as though the shadow quick with fright
The startled hare leaps up and out of sight

The hedges whisper in their loaded boughs
Where warm birds slumber, pressing wing to wing,
All pulsing faintly, like a muted string
Above us where we weary of our vows –
And hidden underground the soft moles drowse.


Words: Djuna Barnes (first published in Vanity Fair, September 1923 as "Love Song in Autumn").
Image: "Brown Hare Silhouette" by Elliot Hook.

Bel Homme

Image: Subject and photographer unknown.

Capturing Images

I have sat in cold fields where the earth is iron hard and watched the day dawn and the hares wake, emerging stiffened by cold sleeping to stretch and yawn out small steaming puffs of hare’s breath into late winter mornings before running across frost trimmed grasses to warm cold muscles. These moments have been some of the most beautiful in my life.

I have seen hares run from their forms across green fields in late evening sun slanted light to leap honey coloured Cotswold stone walls.

I have seen hares on Derbyshire hillsides in twilight and one cross a road, loping like a long legged mythical creature, seeming to be the size of a small deer.

All this helps while capturing images in the mind’s eye.

– Jackie Morris
(writing about the illustrations
in her book, Song of the Golden Hare)

Images: Jackie Morris.