an
empty pocket
lo(o)se
change
mixing
in
a
gutter
previously
spent
on
clean water
Rule Britannia
for
only 20p, a copy of a queen
dwarfed by
monarch
Windsormonarch butterfly
but
in time the backwidens
the claws
harden
in time
an island grows
up from a stone.
(Notes: After working with some fantastic poets at Loughborough this year, I'm playing around with shape and other visual elements in poetry.)