Breakfast in The Country Pantry ...

I dusted my tinned tomatoes with fiery pepper -

Each mouthful was a scalding delight -

I overheard the conversations of grizzled taxi drivers -

Five grand -

The road was up -

Did you see the paper ? 

Richard had unwound his scarf -

The young woman with blue hair wore a tinsel necklace -

I thought about writing my name on the steamed up window -

Christmas decorations hung in gaudy webs from the ceiling -

I remembered the juke box in the Hopperesque lounge -

The midnight whisky in another bar -

The darkness in the streets -

The flickerings of televisions in shadowy rooms -


December 2019


Southsea