Our back yard 1965-2011
I’d like a stop motion movie
of this public statement of change
One photo taken every day
from the bus passing our back garden
on its way to Relief
Things beaming in
vanishing
into slow riff seasons
The house remains static
until the coalkit goes
to become a new back door
Distorted glass
Fancy
A strip of rhubarb tides in and out
dies with my father
elephant ears wide at the news
but that was later
after the broken violin flashed
from the coalkit
and the kitchen order propecia uk sink planter
outlived its purpose
winked out
and the redundant coalbunker
that replaced the coalkit
was reinvented as a storage area
Nacky
And oh…
there was a ferret hutch there
under the window that
kept everything else
behind the flickering net
Roddy Williams is an artist, writer and photographer, based in London. He has recently seen publication with Envoi, Stand, Obsessed with Pipework, and the Great Weather for Media anthology, The Other Side of Violet, published in the US.