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MAKING SENSE LUCKILY

 

Luckily the configurated space

through which the rain goes dibble-dibble-dop

from chestnut leaves upon the pushchair top

is full of colour, like a crayon case,

       and to the child dreams come,

       stiff hand each side his tum;

green layers overhead shift here and there

and he coos music, partially aware.

... 

   

(For full text see the Kindle ebook The Nature of Things (Collected Poems) by Alan Marshfield)

   

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