Heat waving
Summer off towards
Autumn’s tepid welcome
Heat waving
Summer off towards
Autumn’s tepid welcome
At her funeral
wondering between hymns
whose turn is next
In the black sky
night a quarter moonful
of brightening light
Our neighbour asleep,
his TV wide awake
Us, too
Hands relaxing after work
embrace each other
Familiar, warm
Counting sheep to
sleep; which one
will it be?
Summer’s cat-shed
rolling with fan breeze
Chaotic fur mice
Inside the photograph
we notice
no edges
Fence palings pale
into yesterday’s garden
paying the sun’s toll
Digging post-holes
Turning old soil
to face the sun
Yesterday’s news and
today’s, page-bound
paper-set, persistent
The neighbour is selling
his car he washes
it, just this once
The smell of roast chicken
on salad night
Envy on the breeze
Waiting for inky
words to dry and
set in paper
Three chess sets
in one room
I play Scrabble