Steve Urwin
Moth inside my shade
Moth inside my shade
Why do you sound like the spit and cackle
From the dying embers of fires
We sat around when we were young?
I took a slow walk out earlier
Around the streets where I now live
And the sky was scraping my skull
Reminding me of those summers spent in barns
Playing famous-fives or secret-sevens
Waiting for that big man with the shotgun
Finding another spiderscrawl note in an ancient wall
Or tucked away in some crack of rotten wood
A joist sacks of grain once hung from
I remember sirens of the steelworks even younger
Running hone under threat from Nazi invasion
It was 1974 or 5 - but what a thing the mind of a child
How we terrify with imagination
Moth inside my shade
I almost forgot you were there
Drowned out by the sound of my own brain
Kicking back scenes rarely called upon
Only the fridge now, that drone
And thoughts of the dark
Roast filter coffee I shouldn’t drink
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