Tuesday, 11 March 2025

42. Natalie Cooke's 'glasshouse' - inviting David Bunn into the conversation

 



glasshouse


I am the garden of picnic tradition

of grateful leg-stretch of midway haul

of still-cool sandwich, esky-calved,

beneath old-world boughs of other realms

 

this could be a hundred towns 

but I am ark-bound

by nature and name 

my Noah preferring 

gardens to zoos 


the thermos takes last orders 

as in the distance 

begonias press their fleshy faces against hot-house windows

peering in not out

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