Tag: table

• the jar

  I found an old jar in her kitchen
  that for long had remained unused

  it was like one I remembered from childhood
  that I used to cling on to

  the trees in my mother’s garden were many and beautiful
  though she lived in a small apartment
  by the sea

  of the silent guest at her table
  she would talk to her family

  yes the trees in my mother’s garden were beautiful
  but the jar
  I threw into the sea

  of the silent guest at her table
  the sea has no memory

  13/03/2017

  love, mother, sea, son, table, trees

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• order of service

  often there is only me here

  now
  and one place mat
  where there used to be several

  but birds still sing in the
  high hedgerow

  at dusk
  when service is over

  06/03/2016

  age, birds, birdsong, church, hedgerow, solitude, table

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