*this poem has been added to StAnza's Poetry Map of Scotland
listing no. 320*
What
are these houses about?
Why
are they there at all?
And
why when they turn on the lights
they
close the blinds?
If
you carefully peek through
there
are people cooking
or
resting
TVs
on
confronted
by empty couches
toys
laid on the floor
coats,
scarves carelessly hung somewhere.
Why
are the people having windows looking to the fields
if
they close the blinds at sleep?
What’s
the view of their dreams
if
not a valley
lit
in the sunshine
and
lit in the sunsets;
a
topic to write about.
The
mist is touching on the ground
harvesting
the soil
growing
itself to shapes of imagination
and
hallucination
as
they are seen
focused-less
behind
steamed-up windows
underneath
the numbing lights.
By
the time sun breaks in
the
ghostly figures will have disappeared
as
they always do
leaving
behind
hunted
minds
moist
land
and
numb feelings.
February
– March 2019,
Fife.
Photo:
fog on river Tay, Tayport harbour, 24 February 2019.
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