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Lidcombe

By September 22, 2021December 14th, 2022Poesy

Lidcombe

 

A line of evergreen trees,

a khaki green stripe across

a grey flannel sky,

 

marches up the rise

scattering headstones

and sarcophagi

 

to the left and right.

 

 

© The Grumpy Old Dilettante, 2021

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