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a weakness for mystery

flat light in the morning –
the joy of the minimal –
the unknown empire adumbrates

all plans are at peril, relativised again

for were you not the child
caught in a summer shower

who ran in the drive-way
past the half-bricked house for grownups

to find in the back yard it was dry

to wonder how your house
could be on the rim of a rain shower
without there being a mystery

without there being a mystery –
you’ve a weakness for mystery