Saturday, 30 July 2022

not an epigraph

 not an epigraph 


mum waited

in the cemetery for far too long

dad had not arrived

on the bus with his legs for most of the way

in the way he was coping

taking the independent way

the short cut that ended up in someone’s garden 

incredulity doubled up

got there in the end and was scolded 

not quite ‘you would be better off dead’

for the wait had been cold on a warm day

and an epigraph seemed inappropriate 

when arm in arm laid the flowers

and turned for home

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