Showing posts with label old man. Show all posts
Showing posts with label old man. Show all posts

Thursday, 20 February 2025

UNFILED 2022 FIELD REPORTAGE 3




the dove sways
with its weight

on the topmost curve
of the conifers branch

& the lily twice dead
is blooming today

~

you !  
flower !
you could have been anything
&
obvious & complete 
&
heavy headed in the wind swing
on a bed of hard cold clay
you nod & nod & nod
like an old old man
at another VE day








Monday, 22 May 2023

MONDAY MONDAY




we watch the 
binmen

me & the 
cat

him with suspicion 
& fading alarm

me with old-man 
relief











Monday, 23 August 2021

UPDATE FAILED

 


monday & theres no binmen yet
it makes me feel strange
none of the clatter & shouts

i miss the clatter & shouts

theres plenty of work vans tho 
a big white camper that looks lost 
an eight wheeler of toxic something
i cant tell what
with tethered hoses like outside innards

the strange duck opposite is lining up 
mobility aids in the street
for the rag & bone men again

more mobility aids ?
he did this all last week

an old man rests on our front wall
curved over like a crescent moon
hes going the wrong way for a paper

he was 8 stone 
at his RAF weigh in 1943
& hes 8 stone again

or so he says
thats ALL he says

hes dressed all over in beige
ready for another desert campaign

monday 
no binmen
only one bird 
no breeze to speak off

calling it
update failed
drawing the curtains
will check on it later











Monday, 27 July 2020

SKY, NAIL & THE MEAT PRISM





they even pry loose
the wobbly nail

the workers
hang
their
home-time
salt-of-the-earth
coats
on


~


& the sky today
is
just
grey

like an open old man 

its the dish rag of ages

a ragged halo glow
burns eclipse slim
round the frayed edge

there just 
for the just born
to see


~


they draw you in
then they draw it thin

its the meat prism 

strange mail everday










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Monday, 2 July 2018

GOODBYE DINOSAUR




there you go old man
i said

i had reset
his spare room
tv input
to antenna
so he could
watch football
in there
safe away
from his
dead wifes
bedroom living room kitchen memories

her soul has gone he said
but her spirits still here

thats nonsense old man
i thought

goodbye dinosaur






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