Saturday, 6 November 2010

Bonfire Night


The rumble of the preacher on Rye Lane ends.

Dusk is close.

I put my radio up high and

Knit misshapen mice.


A warm rainy night, umbrellas smoky,

Drenched to the knees in cut grass.

Strange children with sticky teeth,

Polite conversation about the weather.

A night to be crazy to go out in.


A boom takes off,

A fizzle.

My windows may smash.


I sit and intermittently listen,

Over the gunpowder,

To my radio show.

I knit misshapen mice.

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