Monday, 3 August 2026

the red hole on the tips

 the red hole on the tips


a boundary of exploration 

stretched as thin as daring went

slither-foot across the tips


the tips 

going across to the tips mum

leant us time to explore things


things 

like the series of tar dumped humps

not worth a thought but worth

an undulation of a run to somewhere 

across the scrub on either path

around the red hole


that red brick built castellated circle 

where each had a seat designated

around the jump down where a gun was

in the war we intoned as one


subterranean wide-eyed smoked out bravado

in the room of a fire’s dare do

that often didn’t do 

go on you try it and see 

travelled around the red hole


there were paths down the other side

that shifted with the deceit of a serpent 

stoned dead in the memory that mapped

our tips


slag stones and ashes built their history

an spat out broken shards of marmalade jars

and stoneware from the midden earth

that placed us somewhere on the timeline 

where we hung our adventures 


and ran

back along the getting there

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