Photo of a blackbird by Stephen Emery wildlife

Twiglets

I believed you when
You said their legs were made from twiglets.
I wish I still did.

We were one blackbird with two wings back then.
But I’ve been flying around in circles ever since
You flew the nest
Leaving your binoculars for me.

I looked through them today.
Memory magnified
Into sharper relief
Than Marmite on toast
And without the bitter taste.


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Rich Uridge

Training company boss by day. Poet and a whole heap of other things by night. Plus the son of a mother who was killed in a care home while living with dementia.

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