Thursday, 4 October 2018

IT HAS A BOMB IN IT




It does and what’s more,
who knows where it’s from...

 Amongst the green grass rolls
of the coal rich hill
where in Shamrock flowers
the bees never still
and dew glistens on
every furry back
and plants are like palms
over every track...

A beetle...

under a crow’s shadow
scuttled to hide
along a yellow flex
into a round smooth hole,
not dug by nature;
not spider, worm nor mole.
A hole among many
in the hillside
and...

BANG!

It had a bomb in it.

Copyright © Jason Horsler
10/03/97

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