Size / / /

The mower cable's puzzled into knots again

and somewhere, out of sight, a spider freezes

as that dropped screw rolls to a halt. Sadly

there are more ways of being wrong than right.

Adrift for thirty years myself I know

it's easier to be lost than found.

Consider it as manumission from

the rituals of fate and fingers crossed.

There are just less ways of being right than wrong:

that sweet spot missed despite much fumbling;

fruitless hours with tangled words; all those

frogs which just stayed frogs when kissed.




David Barber lives in the UK and hopes his interest in the future is reciprocated. He stares out of windows a lot trying to make sense of stuff. He was a scientist once, though he never stood on the shoulders of any giants. This is his first bio.
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