Tuesday, 13 May 2025

13th May 2025

 


married for seven years

I can't remember their birthday

I don't care


© Rachel Green May 2025


VII.V


Beneath her bed, the slats over the frame

are easily removed, and she remembers

Richard Long, an artist who gained fame

by making landscape art with stones and timbers.

Taking out two slats (because she can remove

no more before the mattress sags in two

for she took another four when it behove

to make a stretcher frame on cue)

she uses pins and strip of dental floss

to connect the pair with makeshift hinge

then carries the device back up to toss

it out and onto snow some landscape art impinge.


© Rachel Green May 2025


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