Paper Towns
[ The Mercy Path ]
Along the mercy route
in six month empty
paper towns,
elderly people in torn slippers
dance painfully down rusty nail footpaths.
Their bags : half empty
hold forgotten out of date tins
of meat and dried fruit
as they chatter, to themselves,
about childhood, romance and warm hands.
Life is ending in these communities,
these places of beauty,
where memories will soon be forgotten
as nature wipes away
all marks of living.
Steve Coel
From Croft - Solva: The Mercy Path [ 2020 ]
An 11.59 Publication
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Iron and Broken Bone
Steve Coel
This particular journey is now
like so many others I have previously taken.
For there is something not quite right
about being in dying places, where life
really is just a shadow to the real world,
and the real world is always, always,
somewhere else. Just not here.
Steve Coel
An 11.59 Publication
