cold

Cold

A girl is eating sushi as she checks her phone

A man lies on his back - his shoes are on - his shirt undone

His chest is bare to catch the morning sun

A dozen others lounge around for this is coming up to lunchtime in a London square

And soon there’ll be a thousand from the offices

Taking off their clothes and eating sandwiches

Twelve o’clock - it’s noon

A plane tree with the flaking bark

The shadow of the tree falls on the ground

And stretches out the whole diagonal to the farthest corner of the park . Too long .

It’s reach is five , six times its height at least and this is wrong

On this day of naked flesh . Thin shadows clutch

with bony fingers , this hot winters day

A G  27 Feb 2019

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angel

Angel

If you see anything suspicious

See it say it sort it

If you see anything that doesn’t look right

Please tell an angel - we will have it seen to

You don’t have to worry

It will be taken care of

We will take it in our arms

Enfold it in our feathered wings

And if we can see a way to make it better - then we will

Anita Greg 12/12/2018