If I open a window, I can sense, scent
trees and bushes, decades’ growth,
indigenous grass. Autumn, as the shrubs
exhale. (Do they exhale? I don’t know
the botany but I assume they do).
Earth, blackcurrant, hawthorn,
a few apples starting to rot and
the morning’s enlightenment.
Robert Nisbet is a Welsh poet who once read for an American President, when ex-President and poet Jimmy Carter was guest of honour at the opening of the Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea in 1995. Nisbet is a Pushcart Prize nominee for 2020.
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