Kodachromes ...

I found the Kodachromes behind a reef of foxed Panthers -

There's my dad, forty years younger than I am now -

Sweeney sideburns, a Cecil Gee jacket - 

Louche lapels - 

There's my mum - 

Her hair cut short - 

A summer sky above her head -

My brother -

His dark hair, his hidden soul -

Myself, with my yearning bones - 

The edges of our small town - 

The washed out colours of the Kodachromes stung my heart - 

Those forty years - 

Here in this room - 

Flying around me like songless birds - 

Thursday 23 July 2020.

The Old School House 

East Stoke 

Dorset