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And Also The Trees - Gone...Like the Swallows

Balancing on the wind

Leaning on the cliff edge wind, in limbo

He watches sand running through the fingers

Of his left hand into the palm of his right.

He sees someone walking in a hot dry wasteland.

Young, hesitant steps.

Recognizes her crooked fringe and narrow eyes,

Threadbare, summer patterned, dirty cotton flowered dress

Scratched ankles and nail bitten hands.

Wanted to touch her cool brown hair

But she was gone...

And his old tired face was as still as ever.

An aeroplane hummed way up in the sky,

High up, high up above the clouds.

A green teapot and a pair of boots,

A broken pocket, watch and chain,

A born dead baby pig

Lying, pure white... bloodless

Soft and smooth as a gloved lady's hand.

A spinning wheel, a bill hook

An umbrella, empty bottles, a tin bath, rip saw,

A hat stand and a slate grey pill box hat,

They sailed past his grabbing hands

And were gone like the swallows.

Stuttered words, stuttered words

Voices asking questions he cannot hear,

"Come and find us,

Step back or you'll fall"

But the aeroplane is humming so loud now.

Trying to cling to the summer cotton

Light threadbare patterned sleeveless

Flowered dirty carnation sunflower

Sweatstained primrose threadbare

Dirty disappearing decaying flowered

Fading cotton forgotten fucking summer dress

But it is gone...

Gone like the swallows