I have walked down the down roads,
springing no bogs and soft focus
tunnels of hedges, white at the edges
green scraps and the magenta atomizer
of
cool
spring
dawns,
All touching me to somewhere like rotating radii,
Splashing out amber and circles
Of fungi and lichen (all living)
And, I, who had hopes of exposure to aid memory
The greens, grey
The whites, but white
The reds, black as nights
Now hanging on the wall in Petra’s room, and also
Down the hall and through the first door
On the right
Sitting on tables, next to ashtrays and noble thoughts
Scrawled onto disused checkbooks
That paid for a dawn walk through St. Briavels.