green memory
April 27, 2011 at 6:40PM green memory
paint peels from the window of his pyrenean farmhouse
he is far from home
from spilled ashes
the light turns green and a soft rain falls
so different, reminding him of another life
before car headlights occluded his knowledge
before mountains grew unreasonable
now his wife cycles to the shops
in a polka-dotted raincoat
such things
such things are wrong; he knows this at night
when the wind blows and he remembers
mist
yesterday he saw an old woman
struggling against the weather
and for a moment
he remembered his mother
then he saw the shop front behind her
bright with USA logos on t-shirts
and the moment fled
yet
reflected in the sun-shades
he felt a hint of something else
something unchancy
the roar of battle swirls round his head
the vertigo takes him again
'you should see a doctor'
his wife opines
hundreds of miles away in thought and time
a flock of sheep, hardy against the keening wind
crop grass and remember
llewelyn
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Published in Away Too Long (Leaf Books)