Bruce Barnes

Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK

Bruce Barnes most recently had poems published in Pennine Platform and Strix, and far less frequently my poems appear in competition long lists.       

Poem completed on 31st March 2020

When each day is another

The diary is unopened, unneeded,

the butterflies on its glitter slipcase pinned.

As each day is another, I fast forward

to an unknown when, or slamming the crate                                                                                                           

into reverse, I rehearse a little past,

-  waking to a quietened Leytonstone  High Rd,

where traffic is stalled, and watching a shower

of trolley bus sparks that has stayed alight, 

and more of them, as if extending  

the territory of  hush to fluffy snowflakes

to people on the street and the airborne.

Today is for the blackbirds to test its bounds.