Trees on Bear Road

an 8/11 favourite obliges but not the next
stupid animal only had to jump a fence
so I'm on the barstool studying The Post
ordering pints on the slate & staring at her
the way her hips move & chasing the dogs
could have been my saviour but fucked it
in a scrimmage on the bend or photo finish
so high above the clouds I'll disappear
as if gas or the slightest blemish of dust
whirling in the sunbeams at the window
which should look out on the esplanade
but only on the graveyard & trees always
Sainsbury's bags draped on the branches
& the shapes of the hands of lost children

- BRENDAN CLEARY

From Trees on Bear Road, 2008
Published by Sunk Island Publishing
Lee Avenue
Heighington
Lincoln
LN4 1RD

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