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.