A Litter of Roads

The Anglo-Saxons called this month Gerstmonath, barley month, that being the crop usually harvested at this time. There are two special days to celebrate: Sept.13 is International Chocolate Day and Sept.16 International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer. Definitely we should feast on the 13th, and pray hard on the 16th, even as we go exploring …

A LITTER OF ROADS

runs past my house                           
mapping a landscape

of old mattresses
on sidewalks

medicine cabinets
leaking dosage on weeds

a tricycle falling
on a sandy verge

a wrecked car stares
through hawthorn

candy wrappers gleam
between stream & cedar

these highways
litter-strewn

 

photo by Jon Weston

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‘A Bedroom of Searchlights’: poetry. This collection draws a picture of the poet’s divorced mother, an artist with two children, who struggled with poverty, war, and the realities of daily life, yet still found beauty and comfort in her garden, and her art.
From Inanna Publications, 2016.