below the blue skies
fallen plums
© Rachel Green 2018
worst night
in a long, long time.
remember the river
where you sang your last song?
it overflowed its banks,
filling the allotments with fragments of your voice
until you were lost among the early brassicas,
the colours of chrysanthemums
scatted in petals on the graves of children
while dogs bark at the rising waters
and old men weep to the sound of church bells
© Rachel Green 2018
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