Screwfix, Llandygai, May 2021
the clocks stumbled forward months ago & I ignored them masked & claustrophobic
while the unwashed sun glared out on another season finale
of the clueless
driving up the rocky track to the allotment
with a boot full
of 1950s Stermat tools
our elbows sticking out the window we anticipate defrosted sausages
& listen to a bit of early Brahms in my dream I’d written
an ode to the burger van
on the Llandygai Industrial Estate & won a lifetime’s free supply including the blackboard specials the homemade Welsh lasagna with its mesmerizing densities the piquant & succulent hug
of the chicken curry without chips the Wednesday roast
the lambburger with its mysterious accompaniment the fulsome agglomerations & pleasing etymology
of the Monday afternoon lob scouse the Norwegian sailors’
second favourite
all set to music for alto & accordion by Brahms who’s sat there murmuring German at the bus stop waiting for his voice
to break