Weston

It could be Bass Rock

But it isn’t

The broad Somerset accent

Gives the game away

We are here to be entertained

Let me entertain you:

Diet coke with black Americano

Although you could have Mojito

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Llanthony Secunda

Hundreds, thousands, millions

Of plimsoles, shoes and boots

Have eroded the ground

In front of this bench

Which I have to say

Is well secured

With concrete and steel

In case there are thieves about

The sky is bold and blue

Yet the plumes of jets

Criss-cross, above where

Cargo ships would once have docked

The Light-Ship hotel

Waves the Ukrainian flag

Offering a special deal

If you should wish to stay

McCarthy Stone have built

Right up to the flyover

Their ubiquitous multi-storey

Accommodation with balconies

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Dockside

Disturbed

By the disturbance

To the Leaves of Grass poet

Gifted to me (is it a gift)

By Maria Popova

Disturbed

By the book entitled

The Unconsoled

Gifted to me (is it really a gift)

By Friar Amos

Disturbed

By all the wrong turns taken

In the van without satellite navigation

Gifted to me (she said so)

By the girl at central reservations

Not disturbed, at all

By the service and selection

At Wagamama

Gifted to me ( though I paid princely for it)

By the waitress with the engaging smile

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Natural Divergence

The cloud hangs

Or drifts

Imperceptibly slowly

As if on a stage set

Or a film

About negative capability

So still are the trees

As if renewing the view

Of that Tuscany horizon

Here, with different fruit

It could be for hmm…

But no, I know not what

Except that now

It stretches directly upwards

Whereas before it leant, slant

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Prinknash

Fresh flowers

In the window by the table

My back nestles

Into the chair

With its plain but curved back

Monastic music plays

In this well-populated café

I settled on

The Tunisian Orange cake

Plus a Benedictine slice

With a strawberry milkshake

Halfway through the cake

I decided that a black Americano

Was also in order

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