From the corner of my eye

A black and white, super-furry seat cover
deceives me into seeing, momentarily,
a dalmatian in the driving seat

Imprinted behaviour

Never mind that we’ve had this dishwasher several years
I still step back to avoid the dripping from the door
of the previous one.

From my upstairs window

Sandwiched between the background of iced grass
and the sparrow-coloured  sparse-twigged hawthorn hedge
a Sunday parade of buggy-dragging golfers

On my way to buy a morning paper #25

Sadly, the stooped caution of the woman

crossing the potentially icy road

belies the high-flagged confidence

of her vivid scarlet coat.

Influence

Awaiting Amazon’s delivery

of the next Mark Billingham

I begin A.L. Kennedy's 'Paradise';

immediately feel altered impact

and glad I resisted Pride and Predj.

On my way to buy a morning paper #24

Pat, of the dirty smoker's laugh
usually in black but today a bright pink fleece
and I try to remember whether
she used to be a head teacher
or was it something I made up
in Alan Bennett mode?

Yes I know, but now and then, OK?

Smug pleasure as snug
as my tight black jeans
that at sixty-plus
I'm not wearing a nice mauve cardy
and a serviceable-coloured skirt

On my way to buy a morning paper #23

Recycling bags
straight-sided and close-packed
along the half-dark pavement edge
An instant, urban Giorgio Morandi

Requires no imagination

Low sun through the kitchen window
across the white worktop
where I wiped with a too wet cloth:
casts shadows, makes lace.

Hope MuDJoB is safe-housed

Fractals of red in my overnight wine glass
illustrate my concern felt on hearing
of an overnight fracture of earth in Chiapas