The Inkwell#Octpowrimo #Memories #Holiday #Turtle #turkey
Travelling from quite a fair distance
Up on my bedside cupboard, lives a soap stone turtle
Regaled in fancy patterns, carved by the artisan
Turns heads with newcomers who haven’t seen him
Likes to hang about with others of his kind
Except – while he is Black and White – his pal is in colour
Salford, 9th April 2019
I never really got those markers in the road
why they called them after the pupils of my favourite feline
they followed each other from a to b
leading motorists in the dark
as their eyes lit up
they reminded me of turtles
out in a warmer sea
encased in a hardened case like shell
and saying “hello!” to me
