Late weekdays, several novels, and an Eric Gregory submission have kept me away these past weeks. It’s all a matter of how you choose to fill your time. Except things aren’t always that simple, and sometimes it seems the way we spend time is chosen for us. Like the time spent sitting in a flood during a recent trip to Scotland:
Behind us the manure flood water
squeezed out through Lucozade bottles,
at the Gateway Inn car park.
Behind us no room at four inns,
and the A591s muddy middle bank,
separating separate rivers on
both sides of the dual carriage way.
Behind us wheel spin on slick grass,
horizontal rain, and mud splat on
bodywork dried like scratch marks.
Behind us the unlucky green car
twice at risk on the same road,
in the same town and
waterlogged, like the grass beneath
a Sunday paddling pool in June.
Behind us foot cramp on pedals
and trainers soaked to soaks.
The white lines lost in the dark,
and only cats eyes to save us.
The tide is high as Scotland welcomes.
The radio recalling last nights lost -
forty four still missing,
and the clouds move faster
than the car can outrun.
The weather turns like a playing card.
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The Ka has its own microclimate now. I really must find the middle part of the vax.
The green warrior returns,
body armour unscathed from
jagged rocks heft along the trail.
Gentle caress with water
turns panicked to thoughts of drowning
in a darkened field.
But this is no way to go.
There is a better ending;
four rainbows to signal triumph.
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