The dreaming toads
This a land without toads
The waters rose, and slower than
The wolves and hares, they never made it back
Across the drowning valleys
After the last Ice Age . They didn’t bother running
- squat and dreaming, under stones
Anita Greg 08/04/2020
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These are the doors of the library, shut
These are the doors of the library, shut today until no knowing when.
No way to look things up - expand on knowledge - keep in touch
With current thinking or the conversations that are going on.
The sacks of mail, the ringing bell. The theories
of experts, paradigms, the latest anything at all
No rattle facts - no traffic now no rush
For most of us, the lucky ones. We now have time
For time to slow - to squat - all toadlike in this hollow rock and breathe
and breathe
and breathe
and breathe
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Reality bites
I asked for a hot dog - but no chance of that here
As there none in the cupboard - so what else is there ?
There’s a load of old paint tins - but that is not all
There are boxes and packets of Mystery Things
There’s a pod of vanilla, that’s curled up and bendy
There a box of quinoa from when it was trendy
Some beef flavored Bisto from back in the day
And some custard - was yellow - but now it’s gone grey
Some flour from back in my bread-making phase
Which lasted a week back in - some far distant age -
And some tins of wildly outdated sardines
And the tins are all swollen - so what does this mean ?
But there isn’t a worry - I see something nice
and with chickpeas and powder - it is curry and rice
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