Strange tall birds nestle

Atop alien pylons

We felled all the trees

Underneath the sea

Buried in a concrete tube

Is this the last time?

Ears drumming like rain

Drifting through the warm night air

It’s home time again

Clawing winds punish

Branches relentlessly cruel

Until fibres snap

On quiet canals

In the dappled leafy shade

Watch time slowly die

In mountains of books

The crushing weight of dead words

Paper avalanche

Rattling through tubes

Grey steel city arteries

Carry us all home

When I spread my wings

And they no longer bear me

Please carry me home

By the cold wind blown

In little eddys we swirl

Autumn that remains

And so it ended

This day so long and noisy

So to bed I go

A broken window

Things I should have left unsaid

All empty boxes

As we walk back home

Down the roads I used to know

Sharp memories flood back

Hold me to ransom

Drowning in a sea of blue 

Status quo ante

As the heron swoops

Under an old red brick bridge

My days flee away

While the leaves unfurl

They shimmer and shine in green

And shut out the sky

Star photons scatter

Across dark empty spaces

So far my head hurts

Strong currents dragging

Ever nearer the ocean

It’s downhill from here

Orion the fool
On a delusional hunt

I gave up trying

Confined by four walls

 I travel many long miles

In optic fibre

If I were alone

Would I fight against the tide?

The water’s rising 

Blue bells toll for spring

Melting into long summer

And bid fairies come

Since I lost my way

Retreat into my old shell

A tired tortoise