Today’s still-life
Is a plate, painted
With apple, with blossom
A cup, also painted
A hunting scene
With horsemen, dogs, a fox
The plate sits on top
Of a book of selected poems
By Anna Akhmatova
Which itself sits on top
Of an almost blank sketchbook
From Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Two Harris-Tweed coasters
Complete the scene
Atop the small oak table
