Unfurling

Remember

When the apex moved

And the body shook

I remember you

Unfurling

True

You done alright for yourself

Stuck out, swung in the gap

At the spaces between us

The bar that is yours

Though we drank here, together

My bracken hatchling

Kite that was yellow

And swung with the stars

My bracken hatchling

Do you remember me?

I picture you suffocating

In last tulip polytunnel

Damp and waterlogged, eroded

Because all things erode

How the countryside turns in on itself

When the road is clear and wet!

How the countryside turns in on itself

Do you remember me?

You've done alright for yourself

Swung out, stuck in the gap

Waste-eyed, charcoal shark sewn to the bar

That somehow was ours

My bracken hatchling

My bracken hatchling

My bracken hatchling

My bracken hatchling

Do you remember me?

My bracken hatchling

My bracken hatchling

Me?

And I will finish my drink

And on the night walk come

Stargazing