Remembering the laconic angel ...

Driving back from the museum, I heard Ecstasy of Gold on Radio 6 -

I turned up the volume -

I remembered the film, and those I watched it with -

Mike, tall as a young tree -

Another Mike, the first of us to lose his dad -

We'd smoked Dunhill International as though we were gun fighters -

The film, with its laconic angel -

The vast graveyard under the witnessing sky -

The angel's narrowed blue eyes -

The coffin maker -

The beautiful trumpets -

The cicadas singing -


Sunday 18 August

Upton bypass, between Poole and Wareham