Monday, May 27, 2013

DEPARTING INHERITANCE

Frost, breath, cloud
break - snow on the
mountain - purple
fingered knot
around a bag -
school boy ascending.

Stolid red brick
squatting - on a hill, on
a graveyard - beneath
the arch - that school
his old man hated -
his inheritance.

Mountain arch, river
bank - generations
grounded - growing
thoughts pressing
out - alchemical
confinement.

Awake - the sleepless
night - the river song -
departure - school days
packed in boxes -
night swimming
to the ocean.

2 comments:

  1. Rob is back in town!

    Do you still have your school days packed in boxes?

    It could have been worse - you could have gone to Dominic...

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  2. Instead Dominic was my middle name!
    The boxes are bound up with crusty yellow sticky tape - a sign of ageing!

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