Today was a rain-sleet
Today was a boot-wet
Slogback day of slug-backed
Black street.

Today was a slipfoot
Today was a puddle
Muddle in the dark-grey day
of sky-soot.

Today was a drag-heel
Today was a pushthrough
Cloud-brew lost in the mush-stew day
Of slush-meal

Today was a skyfrown
Today was a dropwaist
Snubbed-faced doused in the drizzle day
Till sundown.

* * * * * 
 
  
  
Between the Rememberforget

Down at the landdawn where willows grow tall
And the moon-tide neaps the waves
Down at the strewnquilt sunspilt surge
And the mouthydark wet of the caves

Down at the flitterfished shallows of edge
Where the toe-slip seaweed lies
And where seashelly soddens are garnished with sedge
To the strutbeaking herring-gull cries

Down at the weedystrewn straggling hem
At the lip of the waterywet
This is where stories are made up and mended
Between the rememberforget


                                                                                                                                           
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