Parenthesis: Leicestershire Poem by Richard George

(the between

great fields in eight-lane slipstream
under gunmetal nimbostratus
from lay-bys' brief settlements
we gaze
to a changeling horizon


our lives

are a sinew-thread
beside panting juggernauts
leaden dawn to camp-fire
we chase out our niche
the hard shoulder


in dreams

we shed Vulcan's chrysalis
gasp in a gale of wings
Pegasus-pedal
to a col in thunderclouds
bivouac)