Tuesday, 9 July 2019

Wait for the Wind


Wait for the wind
in an open space
look listen feel

spread your arms
splay your fingers

run run
catch it
and take off

over what you’ve
done or haven’t

over broken promises
and bracken fields where

you’ve been led awry
or lost your plot

and on passed the cusp
where baked ice and the scab of sin

meet flowing promise

and the unpredictable green
creep of confederate jasmine

and here we can
gingerly touch down

debts ignored
dark arable soil to
plant our feet in

and virgin space to scatter
memories and scars

here they won’t
know us yet

we can act on the new earth
and sow fresh character

for our friends
the worms






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