I have days when I think I
would have preferred living better
if it were a film
condensed into a couple of hours and any
mundane moments stuffed together
and sped up – think of flat clouds dispersing
into blue and a dolly shot
tracking fat, globular raindrops as they strike
windows and chase each other to obscurity-
the soundtrack is an acoustic guitar
strumming symbiotically
as the camera pans to shoot the interior
of a kitchen and zooms in to focus
on the dregs in yesterday’s unwashed glasses
lip prints clustered and still
climbing at their rims.
Jenny Middleton is a working mum and writes whenever she can amid the fun and chaos of family life. Her poetry is published in several printed anthologies, magazines and online poetry sites. Jenny lives in London with her husband, two children and two very lovely, crazy cats. You can read more of her poems at her website: https://www.jmiddletonpoems.com.
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