News Flash! My father’s poetry, originally published in 1945, has just been re-issue by Flagon Press, U.K., under the title ‘Flowers in the Minefield’, James Crowden the editor and researcher. Check out my book page for ‘A Summer Father’ for more information.
………Coming to the end of November, stores getting crowded, everyone rushing to ‘get things done before Christmas’. For some reason it hits at the office too, that sense of pell-mell scurry with all the excitement, so here it is …
MINUTE KEEPER 
gravel spits
from under the tires
you and I mush
hour slush hour
back forth
early hours meals
gobbled before
ad hoc meetings
until days mash crash
between paper bashings
trashed while printing 
committee minutes budged 
smudged by coffee
too many faces
like mine shine
glaze across
waxed tables
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