from the line up
in a seedy bar
to Queen bee
pleading with you to give it up
Buckley's or none
in hindsight
hanging from the eucalypt
our battered piñata
return to bushland
the crop you said was gone
still there
fedora to loafer in white
a drug runner mocking
the Amway lady
line up line up
for the outsider's game
egg and spoon race
tinkering
bits and pieces of our boy
at your fingertips
mama
calling out to empty
papa
blackbird
cautiously comforting
old foe
robbed
of your very last piece
the vulture's eye
courtyard embrace
long gone is the cheeky smile
that once warmed my world
Image from Buntysmum ~ Pixabay
Jodie Hawthorne 