Youth and Age (September 2012 Collage Poem)
Chapped lips kiss the winds of lucid protest:
Jackets minus buttons awaiting a rebirth
Retreating backwards over a boiled egg,
Wisdom grows with age.
Fruit lies for blackbirds in garden -
Thread yourself into my clothes
And breathe in my scent
Sarsparella and bare bums and a boiled egg -
What next?
When it all ends I hatch here, it all begins.
The egg came before the chicken.
Who are you, really? Under the make-up?
Mother, heal me and bring the green
Back into my world.