'And I could cry but I won’t, because I’m far too blessed.' Photo: by Eva Wilcock on Unsplash

Poem by Sue Hampton

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Poem by Sue Hampton

by Sue Hampton 14th October 2022

Once the lock clangs open
I dance alone,
obscured by billiard table and bookshelf
in the sunlight by the bars
where an old, stiff cobweb glints
like the wire looping high into bright sky outside.
At the foot of the fence old litter clings.