10/03/2015

#poem #poetry #ilkley #ilkleymoor #father #son #rambling #amwriting

Above the Everyday

                                                                                                                             Exhaustion
                                                   gives            him          the             eyes
                                                      of         a                trapped   sparrow
                                                     as              he         asks      directions
I scratch my belly
like the ape I am
advise
he take the low path

                                             up here
                                                  my hurrying son
                                                     glows like the rain
                                                         as we share
                                                            biscuits
                                                               exchange landmarks
                                                                    solve deep questions
                                                                        like who casts the longest shadow

we watch them go
him in front
her with the map
and the attitude
                         following the lower path
                                                                 they recede
                                                                                   like sweet papers                                                                                                                                                                   on
                                                                                                                   spilt lemonade

                                                  legs                           thwack
                                                      the wind pulled grass
                                                    my hurrying son dances
                                         side                    on                          side
                                                               the track
                                                 everything he sees described
                                                  stone
                                                                                     view
                                                        sun cloudened sky

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