Feast

The salt lamp

With its non-intrusive glow

Bathes the room

With an aura of love

Forever to be a memory

Of Manchester, with

Its Grayson Perry exhibition

And Canal Street cocktails

Let alone the savoury treacle chips

Holding On

Aeroplane, bird, car

Pencil lead propelled

Blue bird, grey bird

Names withheld

Due to lack of knowledge

Helicopter, pigeon, ambulance

Chimney smoke expelled

Red bird; Robin

Some names return

Due to intransigent memory

Tremulous

Water crashes down

Startling the poet

Whose heart beats heavy

With the expediency of love

Watching On

One robin

Two pigeons

Is it a stand-off

Or dare they square

How much washing

Can one robin do

With how much patience

Will the pigeon coo

Boxed In

Oh bugger

For no reason

Other than

That the moment has gone

Oh sugar

To please them

Now that

The movement moves on

Oh mugger

To tease one

With snatches of song

Oh slugger

To freeze Sonny Liston

Now Ali has wronged