All wearing fluorescent yellow
Hazard-warning waistcoats
Here for feeding time
One group from which school I wonder
Are paired off in couples and walk around holding hands
Also grandparents and parents
And pre-school children
In brightly coloured perambulators
Stopping
To look at the dramatically coloured exotic birds
Whose gaiety they are soon set to mimic
Now it is the time to gather up the bairns
For this year's group photograph
Before the twenty-eight juniors
Of the class of 2016 exit for the day
While the grey clouds approach
To cover over their once clear blue sky
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| buy the book at createspace |
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| listen to christopher read on bandcamp |