Fay Slimm.

TROUBLE.

 

 

Trouble.

 

Macaroon sky,
white-ruffled and fluffed
like meringue pie
trapped in closing oven.

Piebald twilight
mauve-caught and greying
like grains of rye
simmered in storm-stains.

Dun-dark bleak shore
sleet-slaked and coloured
like stew long-stored
brews gale-laden trouble.