short forms 23rd July 2016

plot point
missing baby
why is it a secret
that the child  has disappeared?
Knowledge.

© Rachel Green 2016

summer heat
an absence of birds
where do the crows go?

© Rachel Green 2016

3AM wake-up
four twenty-something lads
roughhousing in the front garden
My plants have been crushed
solar lights broken

© Rachel Green 2016

creeping about
morning ablutions
in the bedroom

Jack's claws scrabble
across the laminate floor
"Shh! You'll wake DK"

Oops! Too late!

© Rachel Green 2016

Busy road. She blackens her thumb.

© Rachel Green 2016