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
With me
this tree
fell on stony ground.
Fate-hated,
the feet soles stand
upright and exposed.
A mapped out life
in front of mine.
Ruptured root ends
Flayed and splayed
Weird and weary,
Bored and clawed
in next to no soil.
Hitting stone
after stone.
Losing hope
after hope.
The ground
was a let down
not you.
Bodged up aspirations,
ambitions
and daydreams,
held together with
No Nails
and Duck Tape.
Roots entwined
with stone.