Allotment Service
Metal in the sky: ash-cold afternoon
The big fork: foot on its shoulder
Heavy handed: spearing the heap
Slip through tangle: the prongs ring
And layers gape: yellowing stalk-work
Developing compost: the heat rises
Vapours disperse: there’s a scurried rush
With beetle scuttle: the scene’s cleared
Thanks for the dark: fire-spots of fertile
Martin Potter ( martinpotterpoet.home.blog) is a British-Colombian poet and academic, based in Manchester, and his poems have appeared in Acumen, The French Literary Review, and other journals and in Black Bough anthologies. His pamphlet In the Particular was published in 2017.