Home – In Deeside
Every day I walk the windy tunnel
of the high street.
‘Good morning,’ says the odd one,
playing a comb-tune
through tissue paper. I bow.
The estuary is nearby.
A neighbour tells me,
‘Makes for changeable weather.’
Seagulls like this place –
crying until they laugh.
Is it the bin bags
stacked for collection
like cliffs in the alleyway?
Every day I put the key
in the lock, climb the stairs.
This is my home
amongst the chimneypots.
A jackdaw winks.
Maureen Weldon has just completed co-editing an anthology of cat poems by The Chester Poets to be published by Cestrian Press. Her poems were featured in September 2013, by Caught In The Net, Jim Bennett, The Poetry Kit.