Sunday, 16 March 2025

16th March 2025

 



morning frost

under a bright blue sky

frozen dog poo


© Rachel Green February 2025


II.VI

Windows, sans spectators, become bare

eyes that lie unseeing over ash-flecked ice

and into soulless concrete city stare

at social housing tenants, rats and mice.

On the TV, Jimmie Stewart watches life

be less than wonderful without him living

the sad and lonely kids and widowed wife

relive a classic film for Christmas giving.

She turns away from street scene microcosm

and looks down at her hands so full of grime,

her nails ingrained with paint and chalk and charcoal

and wonder what she did in all that time.


© Rachel Green February 2025


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