inspired by
electro-tech apprentices
it’s understood
and accepted
there will be
connectivity -
down to the ground:
earthy stuff!
First published by Emerald Publishers (#2 of ‘3 workplace poems’)
in “Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal”,
March 2020
it’s old
before it reaches me
i’m told
the light
the day
the news
the conversation
there’s warmth though
and daylight hours are favourable
still dealing a life force
measured sometimes, in moments
and so
i make the fickleness last
etch notes in my journal
ignore life’s frailty
expand the impermanence
until i have possessed
the full day
calling it mine
as if it were mine to own
First published, ‘Friendly Street Anthology 42’ “Dream-Water Fragment”, 2018
Edited by Karl Cameron-Jackson and Ros Schulz
and then by ‘In Case Of Emergency Press’, “One Surviving Poem 1”,
2019 (AUS) edited by Howard Firkin.