Bordeaux Bay

Bordeaux Bay
Bordeaux Bay by Guernsey-based artist Tony Taylor

Saturday 3 June 2023

NO FLY ZONE

A story poem this week. 



















MOZART          


The photograph is monochrome

and taken years ago at home:

where home was then, although not now.

It doesn’t matter anyhow.

What matters is the image there:

a teenage girl with long dark hair,

unsmiling with, upon her arm,

a parakeet, her lucky charm,

named Mozart. How she loved that bird.

We joked, at times, that she preferred

her Mozart to the rest of us.

No matter: it was ever thus.

His wings were clipped: a bird earthbound,

he always seemed to be around

He lives now with our brother, Tim,

who tolerates but dislikes him

for he associates Mozart

with that thing which sets us apart.

Her early death brought misery

to Tim and me, her parents … she

stepped off a ledge, ten stories high,

but, like poor Mozart, could not fly.


For verse of a different kind, why not visit: https://www.facebook.com/richard.fleming.92102564/

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