Sunday Mornings
You place the pieces on the table
pendulum rocker-arm weights escape wheel
use a toothbrush frisk the cogs
There is a limit to tightening the time
a risk of breaking
The grandfather should not be tilted
sideways backwards or forwards
It must stand as if it supports the sky
Sally Festing’s sixth collection will be published in 2021 with KFS. Others followed journalism, radio plays, academic studies, biographies of Gertrude Jekyll, Barbara Hepworth, and other non-fiction. She has been published in a large number of magazines, see (www.sallyfesting.info).