After the Fall
The dead flies collected
on the windowsill
like punctuation.
Black corpses
against
flaking white gloss,
dotted
like bombs falling
over London
or Berlin.
Tiny UXBs
lying
waiting
wanting
to explode
back into life.
Kevin Denwood is a poet based near Carlisle. His work has appeared in Ink Sweat & Tears, Free the Verse and Poems, Tales & Other English Words. He writes about memory, ordinary objects and the peculiarities hiding in everyday life.