Against Nature
People call her a goddess
I never could see it myself
It was my parents pushed us together
walking through mud in the country park
but we gradually drifted apart
I’ve not seen her for a while
I’m happier indoors at my screen
with my friends on Facebook and Twitter
on a forum someone said she was ill
with trees dying and stuff
but she can look after herself
I suppose I’ve lost interest
if I keep curtains drawn the screen’s brighter
the Tesco man calls me to say he’s outside.
Antony Mair recently returned to England after seven years in France, and now writes poetry in Hastings, East Sussex, on a daily basis. He is an active member of the Brighton Stanza group and the Hastings Arts Forum Poets.