Magic box
In my magic box - WiFi
And Monteverdi - Orpheus and Euridice.
Mountain music and the Blues. The curl of ferns - slowly unfurling right before the eyes
And blackbirds - all birds really. Maybe not magpies. Books and books and books - more books
And shelves to put them on. And bees. And algae greening in the sun
In rainwater in a jar of glass
And books
And boxes
Angels painted by Fra Angelico
That I can’t ever copy but it makes me happy just to try
The Chinese Girl by Tretchikoff, I have the print beside me in this room,
And bumble bees that have no wings or almost none
At all - but zoom around from bloom to tulip bloom
In the four foot yard outside my door:
The door itself - my single key
A yale type key - that’s on a string of plastic blue
Beads. A butterfly in sunshine on the wall
Warming its open wings and cleaning up its antennae.
My Translink card that gives me free
Travel on trains and buses anywhere
Across the border, even, from this year -
At least in theory. It is not allowed
Just now. And thunderstorms. And clouds
People, of course - in small amounts -
And family - I love them from across the sea -
Hot water, baths, clean towels and hotel rooms
Salt water - roses. Curry takeaways
Or sauce on chips. Church bells
On Sundays . Wood to touch - alive in trees -
Or planks on floors and walls or furniture
And to keep us all afloat in this peculiar weather
A fleet of storm ribbed boats with well scrubbed decks, tar painted hulls
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