Straight
back on train seat. Reading not working, eyes turn to passing backyards. Two
types, roughly. Unlived-in is hard. Brickwork for run-off. Disused basketball
hoop. Grassy untrimmed weeds. Clothes hoist and satellite dish, a domestic Jeffrey
Smart. Water tank wilderness. Renovated squalor. Concrete block. The lived-in
ones, more my thing. Italian orchard with platforms of vegetables. Fence of
stratocumulus bougainvillea. Dappled teacups on wrought-iron seat. Sight of the
living’s good. Woman on decking looks at her phone for weather. Man ‘waters’
March lemon-tree. Pigeons peck rooftops. Cat paws face. And so back to reading,
the thread of the plots, joining.
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