
Shock of the new
Are you still dreaming?
Spring comes early
Copyright Francis 2021
Shock of the new
Are you still dreaming?
Spring comes early
Copyright Francis 2021
Copyright Francis Barker 2020
copyright Francis Barker 2020
Unforgotten
“All I see is fire — this room
and that wall of books.
The whole building, all on fire.”
I could see that she meant it,
there was a frightening certainty
in her eyes. A conviction
But there was more
She spoke in a way
that would make me remember
Fast forward three years
and a new location:
a radio was blaring.
The name on a news bulletin
made me flinch, go cold
with the dreadful details,
yet somehow half suspected,
in shocking anticipation.
I could see her, so clear,
the way she was looking.
And now, how could I forget?
poem © copyright df barker 2012