Friday, 28 May 2010

Fifty Eight Pound Hat From Paris

My garden is a saucer of green
The compost a downturned cup
Seeping wriggly nursery food
For the blackbirds fat children.

Orange beaked Mamma’s on guard;
I sit in my summer hat,
its flowerbed mimicry
Doesn’t fool her.

2 comments:

charmian said...

alternatively it could be called 'sixty nine euro hat from paris'.

firmament said...

been thinking about your hat, must be quite special.... hope no bird shits on it

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