Celfypridd

Low mood

 

The heaviness

Of the rain

Has brought

on a low mood

So played

T Bone Walker

Loud

And if that fails

Dammit

I’ll go for a walk

And turn

The word channel on

Radio Rob is best.

 

RAC

Low moods

 

Soon it will be

the anniversary

of your death

the weather

cleared

that midsummers day

And the mourners

danced

to celebrate

your life

in an open field

That long

circular dance

that once

you would

have called

to the drone

of an accordion

And so the body

kindly reminds

loss is about

remembering

the good times

and the goodness

of you.

 

RAC

Summer snow

 

The clematis

Climbs

Through

Birch limbs

In front

Of the stables

Heavy rain

Falling

And the white

Petals

Fluttering

Falling too

Summer snow.

 

RAC

Golden hair

 

I remember

You now

We walked

From school

We couldn’t pay

The bus fare

Or at least

We used

the money

to play

the pinball

in Luigis

on the Square

listening

to the Supremes

on the Juke box

or maybe

the Blue Jeans

Sometimes

You’d hold

Me tight

Your eyes wide

So bright

And then laugh

And spin away

To jive

In that way

And look

At me again.

 

RAC

 

The walk from school

 

Walking home

from school

with a friend.

She golden

wrinkled haired

laughed smiled

I remember

her green eyes

the same year

Sylvia Plath

died alone.

The gas oven.

Town gas.

And she walked

home from school

to find her mother

lying down there

on the kitchen floor.

And Jackie

Had gone too.