Wheelchair

walking

an outlook

an outlet

your body don’t dilly dally

does what you tell

marbles on the way to school

for a long way flick it through

play for each others’ cowboys and indians

late at night

in the fields around farms

make dens of

long-seeming summers

in the 1940s

the first

thing is

to keep

little things adding

to a bigger step

on the fringe of farmed fields

bounded by the Mersey

we’d walk over the iron bridge

time working horses

the river a-flooded with ducks and geese

it’s all we had

kids walking the road home

was better frittered

what’s so good about sitting down?

if you’re going

for a walk

get your shoes and

go

Group

Cherry Tree 2009