26 March 2017

MOTHERING SUNDAY IN CAMBRIDGE

or, AN ODE TO BRITISH SUMMER TIME


Angels singing from Eden
Baptist Church I don't know
about that though definitely
birds singing outside in Grafton
Street at 5 a.m. where doors down
the young couple who've just moved in
are cooing like doves come first light
—— and later, on bikes, in Jesus' Green,
a mother and daughter singing — as they pass,
I hear my laughter as I read written
in cloud on the backs
of their sky blue coats the words:
only the birds can sing.

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