Sunday
Keeps up its show
of bells clasped hands
wears the scent of roasts
takes the long way round
killjoy that calls time early
and dutifully sips Lapsang
with great aunts withering
in coastal towns
drags itself through stop-in evenings
of genteel murders repeats
knockabout Saturday’s
still formal neighbour
not quite able
to loosen its collar
Stephen Bone‘s work has appeared in magazines in the U.K.and U.S. First collection In The Cinema, published by Playdead Press 2014.