Paysage Moralisé
There’s more to this three-foot square:
lilac vetch & vermilion
field-poppies, some sort of crucifer
spreading its yellow legs for an evening
damp enough to be hot;
opposite, big-box retail, facing
away to heavens dreamt
rectilinear as spreadsheets, this present
exchanged for goods & services
eternal in diminishing repetition.
Nicolas Spicer was educated at the universities of York and Newcastle upon Tyne, and lives in Sheffield. His collections Landscape with Forgeries and Lines on the Surface are available from Contraband Books at www.contrabandbooks.co.uk