The Reading Room ...

I saw the torn books in the Robin Hoods Bay Reading Room -

Soldiers of The Queen - 

The Story of Johnny Bertram - 

On the window sill, there was the feathery jewel of a dead bumble bee -

Somewhere, a rough hewn clock ticked -

I thought of the lives once lived in the small wind shaken houses - 

I breathed their damp air -

I shared the grief of mothers - 

22 April 2022

Robin Hoods Bay