A poem about: Blackberries
Blackberries
Left to decompose in the hedgerows of bypass
sixty million blackberries shrivel uneaten
unwanted waste
lost to a billion plastic wrappers of lust
Decayed remnants, minature flames
to a post industrial, post modern time
Awaiting the sediment of history to seal their
Nutritious, healthy graves for future archaeology
Witnesses to Lager can seas of the aluminium era
Tropical post warming generations of berry
Long term silent screams of frustrated contradiction
Concentrated juice of roadside neglect
Only the future will ever know how countless
Generations of beautiful solutions sat in
Absolute silence as all around them looked
For the answer under their closed noses.
Si Homfray
9th September 2007
