Escape Hatch
Memory.
Work.
Know.
Tangles.
Sieve.
End.
Mend
ed.
Hand.
Hold.
Hand.
Hide.
Hand.
Hide.
Lie.
Lie.
Memor
ies.
And so.
On.
Staring Holes into Walls
Bare walls?
Nothing.
A dull thud.
Sway.
Empty Echo's.
Scantily clad.
A dull thud.
Sway.
Stare stains.
Dumb drums.
A dull thud.
Ricochet.
Roots Entwined with Stone
after John Roderick Rees
This tree fell
on stony ground.
The feet soles stand
brutally exposed.
A life mapped out
in front of mine.
Flayed and splayed
and fate-hated.
Weird and weary,
ruptured root ends.
That bored and toiled
in next to no soil.
Hitting stone
after stone.
Losing hope
after hope.
Losing?
The ground
was a let down
not you.
Bodged aspirations,
ambitions
and daydreams,
held together with
No Nails
and Duck Tape.
Roots entwined
with stone.