Together

It's National Poetry Writing Month. I don't often do this annual writing marathon of attempting to write a poem every day for a whole month, but hey, were in lockdown, and this could be a good way to cultivate, (recultivate!) the discipline of writing daily.

To get me started, I did some work on this little one I began on our last holiday -- a few days spent in and around Cambridge in February. Who knows when we will go away again?

Together

Flanked by ochre stone

of ancient college walls

sun spotlights a Cambridge square

where small pink blossom

etches sketchy trees.

To catch the last rays of 

the late winter afternoon

we take one end each of an old bench,

carry it to a corner

where we sit, and rest.