Michael Edwards

ANOTHER DAY

 

 

ANOTHER DAY

 

 

Kitchen chair and cosy slippers

toasting bread and fresh hot coffee

open windows, curtains flapping.

 

Outside winter grey decanting

Spluttering, pattering, rain drops falling

polka-dotting silvered paving.

 

Creaking gate on rusty hinges

weed-containing gutter swaying

beating time on stuccoed wall.

 

Mushy, slushy, decomposing

rotting leaves and dancing puddles

splashing rain on stretched umbrellas.

 

Empty chair, abandoned slippers

blackened toast and stale cold coffee

open windows, curtains flapping.