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LONELY AS A CLOUD IN  APRIL


I knew Great Aunt Lucy’s April outing to celebrate
My failed exams  would be  a  series of disasters, 
A slow motion flying April-fool joke, with  my problems as  ballast.
We went to her favorite restaurant :
The waiter offered me an education  of pastries,
While  glowing over Wordworth’s  golden host,
Followed by the predictable surprise of  her favorite theatre.
We sat through a prison sentence of opera music;
Then a driver-tour of the  city’s scant attractions 
Was tonnage of boredom reduced in a finger-snap 
By his changed tone  - about his childhood home ground. 
My life-sentence was commuted  -
In a blink I saw everything differently.  
I  felt  an orgy of interest in my head
In the way a reflection in  a puddle can appear 
In an instant to be a piece of sky-jigsaw 
Which has fallen to the ground. After that  
You can never again see it in the usual way.
I gazed and gazed but little thought, so I fell asleep.

11  April  2021

(Note…with apologies to better poets  like  W Wordsworth and D  Thomas)
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Entered in the April Poetry Contest  (2021)  of  Regina  McIntosh

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