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BLADE OF GRASS Here down my street Comes the Boom boom personified Soundscape radio beat blast World of powerful loud immediacy Occupies next door’s garden Triumphant festive noise Somehow moves the boundary Several paces to the left There will be few For whom this is an imposition Until the bombs fall Fewer still are thoseContinue reading “BLADE OF GRASS”

And the clock slows
The metronome falls out of time
No longer controls
The heart-rate’s agenda
Stubborn joints unfurl
Warring voices meet and merge
And quieten together
In sudden self-knowledge
Before such grace

Grain re-sown from
Shell-scarred fields
Processed in familiar form
Unending rows of
White Sliced
Stretching in uniformity
On long trestle tables
Then neatly cut
Into dry flat squares
Which rasp the tongue
Thirsting for life

We talk
Of failed fatherhood
Authority abuse
Indissociable for some
From the benevolent but stern
Michaelangelo grandpa
On the ceiling
Of our minds
As we mutter
‘Our Father’

We don’t talk
Of the 33 year old male
Perched high
On the confidence of youth

Over the years
Our bright acrylic traits
Slide, dissolve
Pale into watercolour
Undefined edges
Fine lines
Soft colours
That fail
To arrest