Monday, 1 October 2018

DRY BED: A NEW POEM ABOUT BOISSON, GARD, FRANCE...

Dry Bed



The decline edged one closer 
To a traditional local washing place in a stream;
Remembered, fêted, a focal
Point, its heritage immortalised, preserved…

Thus I sauntered closer
One dawning, fawning, sunlit September day,
To an encrusted and dusted dry
Bed, its heritage compromised, not conserved…

Pete Ray
October 2018

Where Boisson’s women would once wash clothes in a stream.


I have seen the stream running before now but in September 2018, the bed was dry…

No comments:

Post a Comment

Note: only a member of this blog may post a comment.