Michael Pederson
No.58, Slorkram
This stilted house (with tacit heart) speaks
out in castigation of the card-counting
swindlers gambling by the river.
Ferny feet hide secrets buried deep
in the soil, down beneath the timber,
where, all earthy, only spiders stray.
Together we watch the sky like television
screens: lapis days turn back to black
booted nights but we natter on,
letting colours creep and silence settle
behind the shadows of the shrubs think
milk mixing into tea. Tonight
the ether’s eyeballing us, winds gallop
from tufts to yarns then settle in yawns –
a telltale sign to canter off to bed.
‘Remember Michael (with a voice
as brass as bells): inside all bones are white
and souls are soft as ripened Mango’.
‘Of course. I won’t forget it;
and tomorrow can we talk about
the Big City who lost its feathered hat’.
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