April 2nd - Good Morning!

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Spring is on the line         liz

A call from Cambridge* and spring arrived

with the gentle burbling of a wood pigeon

clear behind my cousin's telling of

how cold and still the day’d begun,

out with Baxter on his early morning run,

air crisp, grass crunching underfoot,

stiff and white with hoar-frost.

Now late afternoon, sitting outside

in a sun warmed corner,

the view empty of roads...people...

just a roll of fields, trees and sky.

“I’m hot!” she muttered,

a muffled sound of clothing being shed,

(a wood pigeon’s coo filled the pause)

then, “I’m basking in my bra!”

We talked of family, things that warm the cockles,

of kids and grandkids, her recent holiday,

and all the while, the sound of wood pigeons

kept sifting down the line,

and when we said goodbye,

it was like hanging up on spring.

*from cousin Sarah.

This poem's video - see link below

1)  Spring is on the Line....including wood pigeon cooing  1.21 mins
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2)  EXTRA-ordinary - The Marsh family sharing their lockdown-themed coronavirus pandemic in the style of Les Misérables.  This version best - begins with family being "normal" before they sing...4.01 mins
CLICK HERE