Walking the dog

Through narrow sodium pools of orange light,
down the gardened-lane, at her eager pace,
into the bright-lit, still estate where night
recedes behind neat bungalows, with lace
eye-shields, wrought iron, flat lawns, low shrubs and
white-painted bricks round flowerbeds; from most
comes silence, but a low, recorded band -
playing Glenn Miller - echoes, like the ghost
of wartime romance, from the corner plot
and spurs our homeward pace to evening food,
my dogs foot-rhythm, thoughts, assuredly not
like mine, in nineteen-forty, In the Mood.

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Biography

Trevor Hewett lives and writes in his native Cornwall. Part-Irish through his mother, he works in the Social Care field in the West of England. He has been published widely in the UK, USA, India, Australia and Switzerland and has a collection of poems - "The Patchwork Woman" - available from Mockfrog Design Press, Australia.