short forms 11th April 2017

missing
for all these years
and yet, here's his body
mummified inside the house walls
child's game

© Rachel Green 2017

fresh birch leaves
against the paper white bark
translucent shadows

© Rachel Green 2017

fresh tea
made with the new leaves
of nettles
out to collect more
morning dog walk

© Rachel Green 2017

bodge job builder
eleven years later
and we find out more

plumbing new dishwasher
where the pipes are mixed
imperial and metric

outlet pipe made from sealant tube

© Rachel Green 2017

priest hole corpse. Her repressed memory.

© Rachel Green 2017