Afternoons

• Estateful of

  Washing
• Setting free their

  Children
• of the afternoons

  Hollows
• Summer is

  Fading
• Their beauty has

  Thickened
• Unripe

  Acorns
• Pushing them to the side of their

  Own lives
• Our wedding,


  Lying near the television
• (But all the lovers are all

  Still in school)
• Behind them, at intervals 


  Stand husband in skilled trades