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Tuesday, 18 August 2020

Pausing

pausing

halfway up the stair—

white chrysanthemums

Elizabeth Searle Lamb

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The stairway place is now free

I sit right up to the Georgian window

A young woman wheels a wheelbarrow

Across the field, past the trees


It is not so silent as Bow

Doors bang, doors crash

I can hear conversations

But van Gogh’s blossom is still here


A young oriental woman

Climbs the stairs energetically

She smiles, says: Hi, hello

Before moving on to the door


This is the main thoroughfare

Between upstairs and downstairs

The wallpaper is rather grand

Exotic birds, with feathered tails 


Outside in the field

There are masses of molehills

Each peppered by pigeons

Another woman wheels her barrow


Though this time she moves

In the opposite direction

Before stopping, in the middle

Maybe for a Karma break


I tell you this as a momentary record

Fifteen minutes of a life

Quite possibly never to be revisited

With, or without the wheelbarrow 










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