Once, in a garden

by Verian Thomas

Nothing interesting happened,
on the quietest of days
with a bed of grass at my back
and a blanket of sky
a bumble bee flew so close
to my face that I saw
the lump of its sting,
a butterfly weaved in the air
drunk on buddleia, ants
trooped through the hairs
on the back of my hand,
I followed an aeroplane
that stood still in the air
as the world turned until
my eyes were so far up
in my head that they hurt,
nothing interesting happened
but I remember it still
as I walk the concrete
brick and steel of city streets
to the sound of a sighing spine.

The Author

Verian Thomas is the editor of Comrades and owner of Comrades Press. He is a writer of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, a painter, photographer, maker of handmade books amongst other things. His first book, The Key was published by DPress and is distributed by Comrades Press. He also edited the Comrades Poetry Anthology, UNO and had poetry published here and there.