kitchen

legumes framing

weathered wooden bench

cream plastered

background day dreams

a picture within a picture


bronzed bodies alight

combine harvester

yellow tweed on blue sky

golden american fields


the stories of men

the wrath of industry and gods

projected between

the chickpeas and broad beans


exhaustion, love and want


the hardship of a world

far from this heatwave

humming melancholia


now fading

on my kitchen wall