Take the sunlight
Into your
Into your
Into your
Diminished returns
Leaf, flower, pane of glass
Soak up
Soak up
Soak up
The photosynthesis
Shadows
Steady and moving
Steady and moving
Steady and moving
Signifiers of life being lived
Leather bag
Worn at the corners
Worn at the corners
Worn at the corners
As also is the poet
So so late
Too too untidy with life
Yet love still flickers
Aware, fully, of its absence
Say it again why don’t you
For all of those first-times
Wherever, whenever
Aware, almost, that they have gone
He sweeps the dirt
From the flagstones
Just as he carved terraces
Into the hillside garden
You left
Without saying goodbye
But you took
My washing off the line
I guess in case it rained
Is it the sunlight
Or is it the flowers
Is it the frost
Or is it the dew
Yesterday, one heck of a wind
Blowing through those great big
Horse Chestnut and Plane trees
Around The Green, on The Revesby Estate
I should have known a storm was coming
And I did know that the storm was near
As I sat on the park bench in Horncastle
To eat my fish and chips
Well my car is new, so you wouldn’t
Have me eat them in there, now would you
I had been to see the hygienist in Spilsby
To have my gums checked
Also to have my teeth deep-cleaned
With a powder and warm-water concoction
Which truly did the business
Today it is calmer, warmer
The fierce rains washed away
Whatever had to be washed away
But I’m still here, writing as ever
Trying to find my very own authentic voice
The holiday to Egypt
Has been cancelled
Apparently, there are no flights
But it’s not the tour operator’s fault
And anyway, they’ve offered a discount
If we find a more expensive vacation
I think he’s talking to his mother
Montego Bay is being favoured
It is half the price, so he says
Of other Caribbean Islands
It’s good to know, don’t you think
That when folk are choosing
Exciting vacations
They are still being careful
The dog ran towards me
Barking ferociously
The lady said
You have obviously spooked him
Then she called him Chloe
And I thought, obviously
Who’s spiking who here then
