First Wednesday in December
9 a.m., no one remembered
A kids parka, now stiff with frost
In ‘Scallywags’ bought, in Endcliffe Park…….lost
Metal creeps beyond perimeter rails
Commuter stress, and all it entails
Collective-rusting on forever-choked Rustlings
Lead-free emissions whilst walking-pace-bustling
Café chairs nervously stray-out
Venture from that safe little redoubt
Leaving the sanctity of overnight storage
Whilst all around, squirrels forage
Male Mallards create a splash
Amid midwinter-mating clash
As if aquatic stag–rutting
Under skeletal trees, each other rebutting.
Copyright Jody Redmires 2015