wind blow clouds
racing across the sky
a platoon of swifts
© Rachel Green May 2024
a house,
shuttered with steel this last year
(a protection from squatters)
is restored to sight
with a "for sale" posted outside;
the grim, metre-wide brickwork yard
flourishing with grass and thistle,
dandelion and buttercup;
the surrounding brick walls already crumbling
after its extended winter sleep.
Not a place to raise children
but to cultivate misery and raise rent.
© Rachel Green May 2024
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