The roads to France ...

I've just finished reading The Ghost Road -

I'm still in France - 

I follow those who dance on the road, returning -

I walk with Rivers to the Skull House - 

I think of my mum's dad, my grandad - 

Crossing the cold ocean with the horses - 

Enlisting in Liverpool - 

When I knew him still haunted by what he'd seen - 

Drinking in The Curlew - 

Tellng me the stories by the smoking fire -

The darkness, the calling out - 

Wasser - Wasser - 

All roads led to France -

If I opened my door at night, I'd see the road which knows me -

There it is, the colour of bone - 

14.30

Wednesday 19 September 2018

The Old School House

East Stoke

Dorset