For that one moment
While making coffee
At the kitchen worktop
I was back in Anchor Court
Over thirty years ago
That once new place
Won’t be so new today
Those bygone daydreams
Have also faded
As dust indeed does turn to dust
Such that floor joists
Beneath lifted floorboards
Now come to mind
In a way that only my memory
Is able to conjure up
What was there is there
What it meant is not
What happened happened
And how it felt, did not die
But dust indeed does turn to dust
