Michael Hutchinson
Pamber Heath, Hampshire, UK

Michael is a yoga teacher and retired scientist living in rural Hampshire. His poems have been published in South and Smiths Knoll and long-listed for the National Poetry Competition. Also, one was chosen as the title poem for the University of Reading Creative Arts anthology 2016.

Poem composed 2^nd June 2020:

Locked Down

 

Reading’s a place I used to go,

With streets and shops and meeting places,

The Hexagon to see a show,

Coffee bars and familiar faces.

 

A regular Thursday morning jaunt,

The weather wet, or turned out finer.

But now this virus has come to haunt,

Reading’s as far away as China.