Vacation’s End
 
A tree beset with ladders bends and clicks;
Smoke hangs against a bracken-rusted hill
As fingers close on damsons’ powdered cheeks.
The students doze on buses back to town
Through warm fruit-flavoured dusk, their eyes now full
Of foliage and light blue dangling sacs
That stay stuck fast beneath the lids till dawn.

Jerome Betts

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