Neuro Logical
Monday Morning - Bernard Pearson
It was a good day to walk
In discrete rain; to see a town
In its workaday clothes.
To see scaffolding erected
And no one hung.
To listen to chittering
Sparrows discussing
the weather in an aviary
of their own making.
to watch old people
hesitantly fording
the high street like
wildebeest.
to disturb books
in bookshops plotting
and to watch the girl
in the greengrocers
shining apples
with their breath ,
as if she were
about to bowl from
the pavilion end.
Bio:
BERNARD PEARSON: His work appears in many publications, including; Aesthetica Magazine , The Edinburgh Review, Crossways,North West Words and FourxFour In 2017 a selection of his poetry ‘In Free Fall’ was published by Leaf by Leaf Press. In 2019 he won second prize in The Aurora Prize for Writing for his poem Manor Farm.