There is a chook atop the barricade looking to the roadI knock to let them know she is breaching, checkingno one answers and inside the mud brick all is hollowBehind the wire among the scattered crushed weedthe clutch settles in the pigmented shade, wrinkly watchingAt the T junction the back verge is corn pumpkin tomatothe … Continue reading Knock three times Samaritan, Peter took the other way
Month: October 2026
Do not speak to me, of Odysseus
A duck has come down the chimneyinto Yvonne’s weaving studiodescending through Edwardian ashpassing through more than a centurycollecting the hubris of vanished dreamslanding squat exhausted wings drawn init has thrummed out of place all daytumbled from the large clay roof potfinally knocking down the insert bufferout of the sixth generations of old ironinto a phalanx … Continue reading Do not speak to me, of Odysseus
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Hap Hazard
A few doors down at the house with the cabbage palmwhere the shopping trolleys are carefully herringbonedand the kikuyu grass weaves them in green and dusty greythe silver frames bravely winking out a survival glareas though the front yard is a barricade of the last redoubt Hap Hazard comes out once a big man now … Continue reading Hap Hazard
