First Foot In

Open the door
The car door
Breathe in the air
The fresh air

Widen the smile
Widen your smile
Beside the stream
Beside the sparkling water

Settle the feet
Settle your feet
Here on moorland, here
On Dartmoor's moorland

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Dutifully Certified

I was asked
I almost declined
I thought better of it
Why not, press on

I stumbled
Was the word wobbly
I ought to get a grip
Forget that to be forgotten

He couldn't do it to order
And neither can I
Not for spectacle, nor coda
Neither for mere passers by

I wasn't sure
Not to begin with
Now I am rocking
Rolling this way and that

Will he, won't he
Should he, shouldn't he
I'm sure he can, I know he can
O, blinking heck, they have

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Midpoint

I drove
Two and a half hours
To collect you
Your mother drove
About the same

The trees are still
The leaves are still

We stood together
On the beach
Throwing pebbles
Into the sea
As darkness fell

The mist is hanging
Surrounded by the dew

Your mother drove
Two and a half hours
To collect you
I drove
About the same

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John Lewis CC

I've been here before
Yet I don't recall
The West Country accent
Being quite so strong

Fifteen pound a year
For the allotment
All in beds
Like on tele

You go in there at night?
For a drink an all that
Why didn't you go back
To the same one as last year

Do you want a drop more jam?
Use it up Kelly
You're not going up this year?
Beautiful day innit

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Speedway Tracks And Ramblers

The cows look at me
As if to say: that's unusual

They stare for quite a long time
Before returning to the chewing of the cud
Before returning to the grazing of the grass

For now I am normal
A firm part of the establishment
It is I who now look out
For the irregular, for the newcomers

I move up the road a piece
Find a new place to park my car

Between the old gate posts
There is a broken gate
Untidily repaired;  supported

By a sheet of corrugated tin
And a strip of reinforcement mesh
As used to give ready mixed concrete
Strength and guidance

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