The Days Uncertainties

The Days Uncertainties The day before Before mortality occupied uncertainties The day before the weeping before clay and rubber boot or spring rain worn on sallow backs The day before the bowing as brothers on the alter of the world Once sat as clams in the womb Well they curled between dark and temporary light In the company of living hope loves, empty delights Imagination drifts and drifts while breathing laboured, slowly slowly slower still the day before he died