Picture postcard perfect that morning
I stood on the street like an honest Scots pine
phoning my Bath writer friend. I had to look twice -
suddenly, on the other side - Alan Bennett and Rupert!
I was flabbergasted,
but he was necessarily guarded,
How are you, Mr. Bennett?
And me wearing sandals like a Glastonbury hippy;
no hob-nailed boots for the sturdy north.
He smiled, but noted my footwear;
obviously incongruous like the lady in the van
or Thora Hird come back to life.
I had a studio flat and an allotment,
I had Alan Bennett as a distant neighbour,
I was on a pig's back, but a little bird told me
I was not long for Settle town.
The best narrator of Kenneth Grahame's
Wind in the Willows
passed on by like Mr. Badger, onwards
to the wild wood or just the railway station.
A further collection of poems, many from years in the Middle East, but also the California San Francisco and Central Coast areas (Santa Cruz, Carmel, Big Sur, Berkeley, etc.).
My book of poetry is being redone by me, I have a beautiful cover designed and the book will have a few more than 200 poems in it. I am going to have it printed on demand here in Canada. When it is done I will let you know when it is done and if anyo
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Love ya!
Jane