Bake-a-yarn: Why not the real deal?

Wednesday 19 October 2022

As I ricochet off the antique white

walls of this room

noting yesterday's crossword puzzle

completed with the help of google search

Schmalz-excessive sentimentality

and surely a German word anyway

my eye falls upon the open-

mouthed white ceramic bird

forever caught in full throated ease,

as Keats would have it,

bought in a charity shop

to set on a mantel

while outside my window

the real deal warble

their matins and vespers