The soft breeze gale© GERALD ENGLAND
deposits a patchwork of leaves,
demolishes the trees in rows,
scatters seed
Coloured blooms light a flat field
Fat flowers gyrate in the wind
under a cloud-hidden disc
of questioning warmth
Bicycle tyres tread a gravelled path
There is a sideside wobble
as wheels turn according to gradient
Handlebars are tightly gripped
Scurries of rainfall wets faces
hurrying to many active places,
smears the glass, confuses vision
Claritylack hinders control
In the end a still, small voice
Movement is rapid but unnoticed
Progression's a going ahead from
not forward towards
Composed: Sheffield, 24th April 1973
Publications
1974 Promontory (UK)
1980 THE RAINBOW AND OTHER POEMS (Heckmondwyke, Fighting Cock Press)
1989 Short Fuse (USA)
1990 Left-Footed Wombat (USA)
1993 Lo Straniero (Italy)
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