Lizard

A long tailed lizard
darts across melting tarmac,
gone in a tongue flick.

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Tarmac

The road falls away,
its collapse flanked by bunting,
faded red-and-white warnings

strung from tarnished poles
visible in bright sunlight…
driver, beware of the dark.

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Searching for donkeys

Eyestrain,
scanning the horizon
for donkeys,
for goat kids or lambs,
for signs
that nothing changes, that
the old ways
cling, have strong, deep roots.


* Simone Mansell Broome lives in rural West Wales, writes, performs, leads workshops and is a glass half full kind of woman. www.simonemb.com