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March 2010

Aqueducts

Tue, 30/03/2010 - 10:25 — Pete Kalu

The SatNav nudges me back to
a place I don't recognise

Inside the porch, bills wave,
flat folded carton waits

I fill the bath, marvel at
The stillness of the water

Later, through glass, the usual pathetic fallacies:
scowling sky, bare trees, a lost dog.

Haemoglobin

Sun, 28/03/2010 - 17:31 — Pete Kalu

Playground trails to my sister, crouched, wiping her eyes in a corner
Watching the doctor draw the syringe full, the swirl.
The expanding pool, misplaced on the pavement, and the
bystander's cry, 'the vicar, Get the vicar!'
One dot on a sheet unravels a three year dream.

Fat Rain

Fri, 26/03/2010 - 16:42 — Pete Kalu

Rain xylophones my windshield.
I’m at Morrisons petrol station, tucked behind
the Car wash. Thru mirror shades I take in
This banded grey sky. My suit wants to
sigh off, my tie already adrift. My eyelids sink and
the old, good, fat times brush over me.