Wednesday, 21 November 2012

Morning in the Old Folks Home


One spinster 
strapped to her wheelchair
lightly sucks juice 

from a beaker
at breakfast 


and lies on a mat 

on the floor 
of her room
in the night. 


Was there 
an earthquake last night? 

she suddenly asks.


It's a spiritual dream 
 she has had

I say to the girl 
now opening 
her egg.



2 comments:

  1. I like the way youhave started writing two separate but connected poems in one Gwil. You paint a sad picture of an old folks home though.But then I suppose they are always sad places however hard they try to be otherwise.

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  2. Hi Pat, almost on the same theme you might like my Salvador Dali quote in my quotes section below. Top one.

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