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Animal Nexus
The dog is howling.
He is coming to fetch the rent.
I sense his approach:
drab coat and grubby feet;
up the stairs, barking,
wagging his bigotry -
"Night-birds with ragged nests,
preying on Benefits!"
I crow through my bigotry:
post-date another cheque.
(Where would we be without demons
to pay the rent?)
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Green Light
The girl from Bayeux with cars on her wall
is young bilingual and knows how to drive,
I live with my husband - no car at all -
we meet in the hall, en route to our lives,
picking up pointers to disparate lands:
Monaco, Hockenheim.....Bournemouth, Torbay;
I gather her parents lives near Le Mans
- she used to work at the Bayeux musée,
biding her time till her present career:
Trans-Euro Tourism - something like that -
gave her the green light to move over here,
net a new car and a short-tenure flat
- aeons away from that old tapestry!
I sigh as she taps the green light in me.
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Postcard from Heaven
It had been raining
forever.
I balance my heart
by the books on the mantel
relaxed my umbrella
laid down my umbrella
when through the net curtains
I spotted a rainbow
all sunshine and deckchairs
from Minehead to Heaven
delivered by angels
wind-surfing the skies
and I watched as they played
till the sun crept away
until all that was left
was a surfeit of grey
then I raised my umbrella
held high my umbrella
shook blind till my heart
toppled over the fender
to ponder the postcard
I had been cursing
forever.
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