= streetwise =

shirt sleeved grandad
three streets to the wind
returning from the front
stalls of the smoking picture house
drunk on bloky flags
and tri-fooled britannia
trips over plimsoles lying
slips on nets street-dredging
for bent old shilling navies
signs on a scurvy line
just to get away

drowns in absent glory

that's him maybe
stuffed behind this peopled
bronze as though memorials
suffice

https://clover.serveblog.net/w0dz/streetwise

#smallPoems #poetry #imagism #war #loss
#streetSailing
#wrdz