Tuesday 5 January 2010

winter poem series


Winter


the last minute washing stiff as frozen fish

the tarmac with mirrors like in Snow White

the breath of people waiting like power stations

the ice on the windscreen like the cocaine in movies

the snow much reduced by thaw, stays put

the small lake more a pond like an old silver coin

the gull on the chimney, like a traffic policeman conducts

the children negotating the slipperiness of Winter

the holiday brochure with the sunshine and golden beach

the penance of cyclist caught by the wind uphill

the memory of the snow drift and the crisp feeling of cold

the rain that regrettably announces already the Spring

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