Poetry London Competition 2008
Patricia Hann: THIRD PRIZE
Sisters in a Wood
We meet in the corridor, almost mirror images,
White heads bent over sticks at identical angles.
It is just one, the hour fixed for my visit,
And the day is fine for us to sit out under the trees.
Both have lived a long while and are tired,
And you say it would be good to lie on the grass.
It would be good, but for such stiff old scarecrows
It seems too much of a venture. We find benches,
But soon I see you are too tired for benches.
And perhaps I should have let you have your grass.
The trees here spread their mansions in the sky,
All quick with birds. And some of these, it may be,
Would come and do what birds did in the old stories;
And so we might lie quiet on the earth
And never stir, and those good birds would come
And cover us with leaves. And leaves. And leaves.
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