mayflower hedgerows,
waves breaking on the roadside.
high water, spring tide.

fresh leaves on lime tree
rub against the bus window,
blushing red with youth.

abandoned building.
pigeons on broken windows
watch the buses pass.

jumper in my hand,
walking the Tettenhall Road
in the bright sunshine:

dog roses peer over walls,
pavement spattered with goose shit.

spiralling around,
twisting and mewing on high:
crow mobs a buzzard.

hours before the dawn
a fox cries from the darkness
summoning the spring

pink snow in gutters,
covering cigarette ends.
cherry blossom falls.