Early sunshineovercast by eight a.m.
rat traps, untriggered
© Rachel Green 2020
Mystery Train
All aboard
three carriages from Barnt Green
a seventies mystery ride
(no food available)
with all our neighbours
at two pounds a head.
Two hours
and we've eaten the egg butties
and drunk the bottle of Orangeade
before we see the sea
and embark at the station
Weston Super-Mare.
Six hours of sand castles and chips
and wading out to the water
through waist high mud
thick, black and sticky
and a ten minute walk back
through the fould smelling bog.
We sleep on the way back
ready for walking the last mile home
in the summer darkness
mom's Georgie accent
vowing never to do that again.
© Rachel Green 2020
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