Richard and Kemlo ...

Richard told me his older brother used to read The Eagle -

When he'd finished reading it, he'd let Richard pore over its exciting pages - 

There'd be hyperreal depictions of spaceships and doomed fighter bombers - 

Brave young men would circle alien worlds - 

Kemlo the space boy also haunted Richard's boyhood dreams - 

He breathed Plasmorgia Richard said - 

I remember the names of the books -

Kremlin and the Star Men - Kemlo and the Martian Ghosts - Kemlo and the Gravity Rays - 

I pictured the young Richard, in the bedroom he shared with his brother - 

His bed was a space scooter, his pyjamas a space suit -  

16.00

Wednesday 29 November 2017

The Old School House

East Stoke

Dorset