Outside the convent window

Outside the convent window

        a brick red geranium

        climbs out

        of a cracked terracotta pot

        bent towards the light.

        On a broad brush of wind and rain

        July paints the dark afternoon

        in green and grey.

        Late weather bulletins report snow

        at Crystal Brook

                                   and Lynton.

        Cars slip on ice-rimed roads

        and here

        only this brick-red geranium

        strikes with small hot suns

        into an afternoon

        of freezing cold and numb.

These poems are from my new collection IN THE APRICOT DARKNESS (view the cover and contents below in my recent posts). They are now being published individually, daily under 'recent posts' on my blog and will be available shortly as an eBook that can be read online or downloaded for free.