Secret Shape of Time
It is early morning,
Granny’s kettle whistles
she winds the grandfather clock.
It is lunchtime,
Bonaly Primary School
I am ‘backward’, so I am told
Summertime, the playpark tarmac is melting.
“What is the TIME Mr Wolf?”
It is holiday time
Tower of Glenstrae, Argyll.
I am with my dear Granny [her little helper].
Neon orange life-vests [with whistles]
stored in the ‘Arts and Crafts’ hallway cupboard.
Almost the last year of school, Firrhill High
I studied the poem ‘Rainbow’
Higher A, for that
and in all my exams!
The top deck of Number 10 bus [maroon coloured]
to Princes Street
to buy, from John Menzies record department
“Difficult to Cure”.