1.Early Morning Walk Kissing the skies with a freshness Each morning stroll to work Across the end of summer Carries a brisk walk across Meadows half buried in mist Agitated with the rising sunshine Past swings covered in tears From the freshness of the night air And sunlight hovering Over the top of the bowls club Stretching slowly before Eventually pulling itself upwards, Disenchanted birds flying west Then south with a weary cry Admonished across the sky Breathed from beyond the seasons Wandered deep into a change Around corners in murmured sunsets Separating emotions around The brushing of a few leafless trees Standing at the edge of existence Awakening different feelings Eddied across my feet Buried in yesterdays feelings. 2. Early Autumn Affair Why don’t you ring up your job, Sarah And tell them your stomach is off Then we run off to the shops On the coastline near your mums Just before it turns into A constant, brisk, chilly breeze. Play bingo in the old bingo hall And watch that old comic at the Palace Whose name I always forget And listen to the Walker Brothers And Roy and Elvis and the Everleys Serrating each other next to the station. We could go to the arcade on the South Pier That stays open until 4 in the morning And eat again in that Italian Restaurant That barred your Uncle Bobby after Serving us the most amazing Pasta For being violently sick in their toilets. Push each other down Fold Street again That leads past the Old Market Which we haven’t been to since we were young And then seeing somebody else Until we got to Greengate Woods Where we first made love. Lift up our emotions Right back up the very start Love again what drew us together Your parent’s house, your bedroom Even if I couldn’t wait to run home Fingering through my pockets for coins. Our memories for dreams Scaled in fractal brilliance. ***