MOUNTAIN IN PERU

seven colours
make up the mountain in peru

&
it
has
no
obligation

but to the tantós of the sun

~

perspective jam

on reality toast

see how the crumbs

special like snowflakes

strike out on their own

LOOKING AT A HEDGE TOO LONG

i wonder who is responsible for this hedge

  its dusk 

 in this light  i dont know  
   if the dark green i see
    is a memory 
      after
 the orange street lights
  have taken  its colours away

  this  hedge
   
    look at it

 all  those leaves
   small leaves
  so many  small leaves
          and  
   i  wonder how they would taste

 i  am reminded of cornflakes
  covered in melted chocolate

  its  a dense raggedy tangle
     but  well pointed 
 like a new builds chimney breast

  and  it comes round the 
 retirement homes barred windows
   like men  forming up on parade
      between the pale order
    of  stacked bricks

        or an orphan
      from a royal mans
        garden  maze
  looking for  attention
    in the pleb streets

from atlasobscura.com

HOSPITAL COLOURS FROM A WINDOW

suneye shines on yellowline hospital hatchbacks
turns their blue bonnets silver
everything
is
dialled
down
to a quiet insect hum

washed out colours struggle thru a haze of beige

nurse pulls a blonde ponytail tighter and tugs down a dark dress
walking fast and late in black flat shoes
past
grey/white panel walls no shadow on their flat mute glare
hiding patients 
on 
tired green sheets
in 
dull orange jammies

van drivers coast in dirt painted vans
their slamdoors muted in heat
and
shift matte brown cartons to cool white inside
without
the
normal 
swears