Summer's Done
by Paul Brookes
spice hearth
of tha home, tha wickness
with apples, pomegranates,
pumpkins, squashes
colour tha home
with marigolds,
chrysanthemums
burst pomegranate seeds
with tha teeth
savour their sharp,
bittersweet flavour
light bale fires
to scratch mistakes
light torches
to honour tha dead
kindle new fires
burn incense
set tha torc tenned ablaze
a pyramid of timber
called the Fire Boar
save the ashes
put a candle in tha window
so tha dear dead loved ones
find a way home
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About Paul
Paul Brookes is a shop asst. His chapbooks include The Fabulous Invention Of Barnsley, (Dearne Community Arts, 1993). The Headpoke and Firewedding (Alien Buddha Press, 2017), A World Where and She Needs That Edge (Nixes Mate Press, 2017, 2018) The Spermbot Blues (OpPRESS, 2017), Port Of Souls (Alien Buddha Press, 2018),Please Take Change (Cyberwit.net, 2018)
Forthcoming Stubborn Sod, (Alien Buddha Press, 2019), As Folk Over Yonder ( Afterworld Books, 2019). He edits The Wombwell Rainbow Interviews.
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