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June
Jeff Skinner
Let this poem be a Sunday
morning – quiet light floods
the room; birds tuning up
in the trees run through
a scribbled libretto
of courtship and gossip.
Bring your coffee back to bed.
Today anything’s possible, nothing
irredeemable. Sun warms
the bones of the earth,
in mosques and parks
people gather;
no fire claims a life,
no terrorist owns a bridge.
Jeff Skinner’s poems have appeared in Stare’s Nest, Crowsfeet, Clear Poetry, Ground Poetry, The Open Mouse, Poetry News, and on a Guernsey bus. He was long listed in the Bridport competition in 2012 and shortlisted in the 2015 Wells Poetry Competition. He reads occasionally with Exeter Poets Uncut.
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