Hi Sally,
You write:
"Please, I want reality back
as summer arrives: will I get it?"
And I'm wanting to reply that we might get a summer (worth calling a summer)
but there's possibly less chance of getting reality... LOL!
I enjoyed the read! (And the way it illustrates a post-election mood!).
Bob







>From: Sally Evans <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: New sub: Turnout
>Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 23:58:11 +0100
>
>Turnout
>    (UK elections)
>
>May buds open on boughs.
>Posters flap from the lampposts
>while impotent rain glistens
>the day after an election,
>nights drawing out, grey-green,
>longer light for the country
>to remain the same as before,
>last year and other years
>when the voters woke, a percentage
>like the oak and the ash after winter,
>and the candidates, their rosettes
>like flowers pushing out of the greensward,
>sleepless all night for the count.
>
>I pass through a long street,
>through colourful optimism
>of placards strewing the pavement,
>smiles past their sell-by dates
>and pogled wars part forgotten.
>Please, I want reality back
>as summer arrives: will I get it?
>Trying not to be noisy
>we hurry along the back streets
>and look in our message boxes
>for the little things that have happened
>as though it were all decided
>when the May buds open on boughs.
>
>SallyE


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