Call me Worm Eye; Paschal Eye, Lenten eye, Crow eye, Crust eye, Sugar eye, Sap eye. All
these names I am, full in a daylight sky.
Make my wishes come true, bless this soft small

garden in moonlight. I prepare the earth
for your planting. Prepare yourself for change.
Call me Gust Eye and Plough Eye. It’s so
worth
seeing my Sap Eye bleed and worms rise range

over warm soil, after snow melt and ice crust
refrozen glints before it too, melts. Turn
plough, bring up riches, bury weeds, You must,
prepare my ground for my eye to relearn

new beginnings, my Chaste soil sight dug fresh,
this eye returned from hard dark starts to stretch. 
 

Image credit:Raymond Huffman

Paul Brookes is a shop asst. Lives in a cat house full of teddy bears. First play performed at The Gulbenkian Theatre, Hull.  His chapbooks include The Fabulous Invention Of Barnsley, (Dearne Community Arts, 1993). A World Where and She Needs That Edge (Nixes Mate Press, 2017, 2018) The Spermbot Blues (OpPRESS, 2017), Please Take Change (Cyberwit.net, 2018), As Folk Over Yonder ( Afterworld Books, 2019). He is a contributing writer of Literati Magazine and Editor of Wombwell Rainbow Interviews, book reviews and  challenges. Had work broadcast on BBC Radio 3 The Verb and, videos of his Self Isolation sonnet sequence featured by Barnsley Museums and Hear My Voice Barnsley. He also does photography commissions. Most recent is a poetry collaboration with artworker Jane Cornwell: "Wonderland in Alice, plus other ways of seeing", (JCStudio Press, 2021) , sonnet collections: "As Folktaleteller",( ImpSpired, 2022), forthcoming "These Random Acts of Wildness, (Glass Head Press, 2022)

 

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medium.com/@PaulDragonwolf1

Twitter: @PaulDragonwolf1