#homealonedaytwo

Today started in a confused manner...see day one... and continued with a lovely walk with at least one confused dog - Kitty of course treated the whole affair of the beeps with disdain...

We had a dustbin-firing in the garden, complete with  a random reading of John Ashbery's  "How to Continue"...which seemed oddly appropriate, though I hold my hands up to cider in the afternoon over a magic-potion-filled fire after little sleep or food :-)
I am continually amazed at how the universe conspires...

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52163/how-to-continue

#homealonedayone

All this followed a day decorating...painting various walls, and the mulled cider -
Up at 2am with bleep bleeping. Came downstairs. Couldn't find it. Couldn't find Eve. Back up for dressing gown and slippers. Found Eve in our bedroom. Back down with Kitty for drink and toast. Back up. Couldn't find earplugs. Rummaged through suitcases for spares. Back to bed in dressinggown.
Bleep still bleeping in kitchen, though everything, including cooker clock is off. Evie is having a breakdown outside. Could it be the florescent tube? ������

No it was the C.O alarm, which I'd forgotten was on the top of the kitchen cupboard, out of sight...
#homealonedayone!

Day-trip to England

Awake so early
I could have caught the 'milk-train'...
clank of ghostly churns

For Ben

Every time she goes away
with the unicorns
in the silent morning woods
It seems to me
the longest
5 -10 - 15
minutes of my life

But

to be true
the two minutes
you were 'hiding'
in 1991
were longer...

Hungry

my day was found
in the dusty bookshop shelves
 of friends

Ruin

In the wood
derelict

Roof...gone
windows...blind
door...empty

Hearthstone
hearth
stone
cold
stone

World ruined
my world ruined?
I view in horror
the dereliction...

Will there be
another generation
to populate the land?
Will there be
(for me?)

Trees rooted,
reaching for the light,

Wait...
listen...
birdsong...

Maybe.
listen...

Sweet valley sounds

Inaugaration Day

Marching in my heart,
standing with the unimpressed,
dancing with the wolves