Poetry box

by Colette Bryce

Kevin Henderson is Programme Director of the Master of Fine Art course (DJCAD) and works in the multi-disciplinary field of performance-orientated art.

Chernobyl's Cloud
for F

Unhurried, Angus turned
grass cuttings into the soil
bending now and then to throw to one side
a handful of ghostly root
spaded into the afternoon glare -
We sat on the backdoor steps
Cari stretched out next to us
Callum asleep in his room:
as the sun fell we talked
about the clothes-pole that Gran once used
to push her wash into the sky, that, and
the crops you'll plant next spring.


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