Dining Out
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The hill displays its wine list,
recommends one stream it pours into
a pool, then waits for us to taste.
The wind breathes out. A cloud glides in
then past, and from its tray,
it serves the melon of the sun
into the valley's dish. A kite-flyer,
impatient for his entree, toys
with his vast napkin, stretches fingers
out above him into nylon lines.
Startled across the grass, a grouse
blusters into wings - the kite-flyer
licks his lips, his fingers fish
the bird from the bright tank of the air.
He lays its round red shape
on a bed of fresh moss, before he
dips the kite, begins to scoop
slices of cloud-blue ice cream from the sky.
A cheeseboard of yellow fields is spread
beyond us, but we decline. Our eyes,
already feasted, start to droop.
We nap, replete. The crickets lurk
like waiters in the corners of the grass,
clearing the meadow like a tablecloth.
poetrymagazines' note: recorded at Southbank Centre on 9th December 2006.
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