Wednesday, 29 June 2022

Re-housed

 


 

 

 

 

 



Beams in the skip
are fractured, grey
as the bones of children,
three to a grave. 

Doorstep mothers, aprons
flowered, re-housed
in citified concrete,
their potted plants flaring,
not offering gossip
when winter’s bleached
all colour, clotted
sap in the stalks,
they lifeless, brittle

as beams in the skip
 

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