Winter Triplets

Stripped or gone to seed. By Hallowe’en

the garden’s falling back on its laurels;

its hollies, ivies and all its evergreens.

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Neat, how every now and then

metaphors declare themselves:

you’re a robin; I’m a wren.

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Propped up in bed half listening for the post

half in a dozy dwam. Poems hover … but

my ballpoint pen keeps giving up the ghost.

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Blizzard over. The chittering downspout

sounds relief and loss. And, as an afterthought:

‘So what was that all about?’

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February. Spring sets out its stall:

camellia pinks; ballooning crocuses;

and ivy, spilling hearts across a yard wall.

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Real matey, of late, this blackbird and thrush.

Putting two and two (as usual)

I’m thinking … Black Thrush? T-Bird? Blush?