Wicked rhubarb

Pencil-thin and pink, the spring’s first stalks.
This market stall knows how temptation finds
the eager sinner; the stall-holder talks
of how life used to be, how this reminds
him of his mother  -  couldn’t pick it till
it grew inch-thick and lost all tenderness.
We eye the new growth’s innocence  -  and will
I yield to this temptation? Yes! Oh, yes!


The morning after

Streets wear their shame-faced, hosed-down look,
woken up too early, dragged
out of a sleep that barely started
into a day they don’t want to recognise,
and last night’s Full Strength
rolls empty in the gutter.

D. A. Prince

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