Monday, May 16, 2016

Robert Verdon, #144, Tin Roof


a tin roof slopes in the windless sun
facing north
the size of a matchbox from here
a lovely place to lie in autumn
save the danger of sliding into
the yard in front
we sit together in our U3A play-reading
group going over Educating Rita

I feel curiously like a dried leaf
in an Herbarium, one fallen from
the compactus …
but I am the baby of the group, as always,
and I wish for a beat that I were meditating out there
on the hot zincalume®, taut as the skin
of a bongo drum,
and ready to blow away

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