Summer

June 2020

Cob On

 

A battered football

Nuzzles tight in a swans nest;

The proud cob keeps guard. 

*** 

 

 

July 2020 

Ice Cream Chicane

 

A spent Cornetto

Sits upended on the lock

Like a traffic cone. 

Is this a portent?

May there be trouble ahead?

I swerve in accord.

 

 

***

August 2020

Like Duck to Water

  

A clutch of ducklings

Follow proxy matriarch:

Bottle of Grey Goose. 

Further down the cut, 

A paddle of Actimel

Tail Mother Yazoo.