The snow had brought down the middle ‘s’ from the sweetshop sign but the old folks didn’t care. They’d buy their soft toffees and dance.
Tweets
Outside the vet’s
There’s a bedraggled but waggly queue outside the vet’s.
A woman in white inhales deeply and opens the glass door.
Only the dogs move.
See you later
Steve thought he’d spice up his walk by imagining Neil was a bloodthirsty zombie. “See you later sucker!” he shouted. He turned, ran, fell.
A waterslide in the desert
“You’re as much use as a waterslide in the desert!”
“Oh, don’t start.”
“Well, you make me so angry!”
“Well….” (He grins.)
“It’s not funny.” (But she smiles.)
“Well…. In the desert….” (He grins again.)
“Stop it! I’m fluming – fuming….” (She tries not to laugh.)
(They kiss. They make up.)
Awake
My eyes saw you; my heart did not. I was asleep.
At the end of the heart’s night the sun came up and you were there.
Thank you.
I could see Fife then
I could see Fife then
I couldn’t but
I could see the Forth then
I couldn’t but
I could see outside the window then
I couldn’t then
the snow
(A very very short) Love song
God made the look in your eyes, the touch of your fingers;
then everything else in the world.
My job (1)
My job? I wipe the dirt from the faces of angels. Sometimes the beauty is lessened and I cry.
The headless man
The headless man strides down the road towards me. Sure, decided steps. Then the streetlight behind him shines through his umbrella. Relief.
You smile
You smile; slow sunrise
warms across my frozen heart –
now, forever, summer.
simonsalento 