NO POST

no post today
in honour of Health Workers and 
for 
the 
Uniformed Invisibles and
for 
the 
clerks running closed cluttered offices and 
the long ward circus
bright eyed smoking green menthols 
in the overcast sun.
big hearts
swollen on cardigan sleeves 
wondering
WHY ME and WHY NOT ME/impossible not to
hug
for 
simple comfort/only and all i can just do.


no post today
in honour of endless dangerous daughters
and
strong sweet mothers still smiling smiling smiling.
soft and strong and deep running rivers 
that nurture and turn and hold
the problem and disaster world/let down by
others silent sons
still hug him happy/simple comfort
in the Tesco car.


no post today
in honour of polyester hospital staff
that tune and tweak 
mortal soft machine.
no post today
in honour of hot stomach knots/arrive with the cool dawn
wicked whirlpools of Every Feeling and
realisation and
open windows to let sky and pain
come in as they are/like spun
moments 
enormous and
wet with eyes.


no post today
in honour of everyone who needs
two days to think/to make a simple plan/no post 
for A&E phone calls/turn pretty lips serious and small
and tense
in determination thats inspiration

for a spinning whirlpool man.


no post today
in honour of 11AMs furious foundless
delicate mists/no post for perspective flung and 
lost and
found late thats hot
like new
roses picked and placed in glass
on the apology table.


no post today
thursday of 1000 moments/no post today
for the sun and 
for no sun and 
for the great swept ships; unsinkable.
no post today for mercury mothers/never 
think of themselves like they think of us/weak 
children 
not 
posting/spoilt in troubled freedom.