from London through the year

•Leaves are still unwrapping

•Slowly reveal soft insides

•No-one notices

•Above hurrying

•People scurrying to work

•Nature quietly continues

•Lime leaves unfurl

•Soon it will be dark

•Inside my sitting room

•Buttercup carpet

•Kindly covers corpses

•Of daffodils and paper cups

•Bluebells

•Spikily elbow

•fading buttercups

•Rain needles city trees

•They don’t respond

•But shelter soulful blackbirds

•In London

•Pavements still matching

•The sky

•cool morning

•touches my arm

•scented with lime flower

•A flash of yellow

•Among the sticky lime leaves

1. •  The Goldcrest attacks
   

1. •   Abandoned gym mats
   

2. •   Blue in the grey rain playground
   

3. •   Dragonfly habitat
   

•Back at my side

•Thought I’d left you at the park

1. •   Wing mirror spider
   

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4. •The sun is dipping
   

5. •Tracing the morning rooftops
   

6. •With a gold finger
   

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9. • Brown Autumn spider
   

10. • Makes its dash across the floor
    

11. • Fails to find love
    

1. • Too soon wasps finish
   

2. • Exploring rotten apples
   

3. • As Summer turns away
   

1. • Then Summer turns back
   

2. • With a bright blue searing grin
   

3. • ‘I fooled you’ she says
   

1. • Bigger than a cat
   

2. • Brown head down in the streetlight
   

3. • The urban foxtrot
   

1. • Wintry twittering
   

2. • Grey October London air
   

3. • Robin back on song
   

1. • Blue black window view
   

2. • Unzipped corner to corner
   

3. • By the kid’s firework
   

1. •In Morrisons aisle
   

2. •An old man with child bright eyes
   

3. •Cradles Christmas sweets
   

1. •Tottering gently
   

2. •Towards the nearest checkout
   

3. •With Celebrations
   

1. •Blackened lime tree flails
   

2. •Flying tenacious leaf flags
   

3. •Defying the gale
   

1. •The  tree naked now
   

2. •Head held high in frozen air
   

3. •Awaits the solstice
   

1. •Do your worst she says
   

2. •Unclothed by your wicked wind
   

3. •Days lengthen, I live
   

1. •Now winter turns back
   

2. •with a ghastly frozen grin
   

3. •sneering with bared teeth