under a leaden sky
the whump whump of machinery
Walton builders
© Rachel Green July 2021
cleavers
winding around the beans,
the tomatoes, the currants.
I strip it away by the handful
but the roots release the bodies
and live onward, tenacious
like the bindweed around the lupins
and the front border
choked with the stuff
© Rachel Green July 2021
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