pond
it only ever takes one bravado pebble for the sticklebacks to flirt with the
resulting water halos
cavorting with water reedsmessing up lilly pads
iand frog platoons voyeurs of
the voluptuous slithers of sun shrapnel
slowly undressing seven veils to the
hum of the wind
(......)
they’ve built an eraser factory upona mass grave of ripples
and pond skippers
the factory pride their selves
upon producing the finest erasers
three counties wide
i work there
and i swan about in
my cold clinic uniform
like a dog who dumps daises
(i’m generally unhappy andlive through eraser villages, pen top
people and cows with drawing pin legs)
cavorting with water reeds
messing up lily pads