Bake-a-yarn: On Aging

Monday 13 February 2023

I list like a ship on my daily perambulation of the park

to port or starboard, sometimes even trimming fore or aft,

and wonder what it is that tilts a ship so...

heavy cargo, ailing sails, groaning bark?

All I know is that by the time I reach the post

recently erected by Dunlaoghaire-Rathdown Co Council

that illustrates the different types of bugs that troll our park-

the Spittlebug, the Greenshield bug, the Hairy shield bug-

I will be mast upright again, having reached the righting moment

evaded capsize or sink but still sailing into the sunset...