Greenlane Poetry

All Saints 3pm
At the Town Station
Bad Day
Bar des Sports, Charly-sur-Marne
Before and After the Watershed
Call to Witness
Carte Postale
Charlie
Clerk of Works
Dedication
Dog in the Night
Easter Saturday at Festubert
Fargate
Fargate-duplicate
First Light
Force Nine
Forge Island
Four Chimneys
Furnaces
Ghosts
Grand-dad Smith
Gwen G
Half Empty
Harraga
In Glen Howe Park
In Provence
Incident
Kilner's Bridge
Lady
Last Train
Lilacs
Location
Magpies
Man and Dog
Mungy Lane
New Poem
North Line
Nurses
Outfield
Painting By Numbers
Passiontide
Patriots
Per Ardua
Pioneers
Poor Pierre
Progress
Release
Rememberings
Romeny
Routine Visit
Runner
Sawn Moor
September
Solstice
Spring Training
Start-1
Students in Crookesmoor
Terminus
Thatcher
The Don at Swinton
The Festive Season
The Hawk in the Tree
The Lavender Feast at Saullt
The Runners in the Fields
The Seasons
Treatment Days
Trips to the Seaside
Up Train
Valley Mist
vase of Flowers
War Babies
Watten
Weston Park
WestWind
What Love Is
Winthrop Park

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Runner



Your long hair a flail
in the gloom of early May
left right left and like
a whiplash or the tail
of keen retrievers chasing down
their gunshot flapping prey

No weight to lose no time
to waste on this cool morn

And tarmac glistens grey
there is no trace
of footfall where you pass
I know that in the silent wood
are bluebells shining
violets in the grass

I hope it is no crime to say
that you can flail me any time