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Thursday 21 December 2023

Meander

Thin spoked bicycle wheels

With double derailleur

Gear changers

Where then to go today

Where shall we go today?


Lonely

Pipe tobacco

And rolled up sweater

In the garden shed covered in dust

I've misread, you're all settled to rust


Instead I walk into my other valley

My imaginary abode

Out into the deeper country

Out among the poppy fields

With the oak tree, the ploughed furrow

By the trickling stream and the butterfly


This is the morning sun

And already the heat is on

By midday

The shopkeepers will be sat on the pavements

Too warm indoors

Too warm out also


A cold Guinness

A Jubilee stout

If only we knew what to expect

We, maybe

Could set out our orange groves

Without doubt

We could make our own marmalade


Instead we sit

Pity, we are in fear of the end

We await the return of the cloud and rain

The onset of autumn

We hurry along

On to the thrush of deep winter


Of another Christmas

A Blue Streak, two-wheeler

Dropped handlebar

Racing bike



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