Wednesday

Wednesday, and it's now almost five days

Since I've had time to contemplate some verse

But travelling to Enfield on the train

I can make time for thinking and reverse

The headlong rush which going up by car

Necessitates, for, while the music helps

To calm the jangling stress, there is no space

For language to unfold and write itself.

So here I am, pen poised and coffee poured

The carriage silent and the summer heat

An English Idyll coaxing me to spill

My locked up feelings over this blank page

          However, should normality ensue,

          I'm liable to doze off 'til Waterloo.

Brian Hick

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