Moving House.

(After Kevin Ireland) . Shifting is growing on my mind: Cartons to buy and items to pack In order, like a vertical file: Books in boxes; clothes in cartons. All the furniture and home appliances. How do I deal with all that? Leave the heaviest for the hired men, With their blanketing and shrink wrap. I return the keys to the owner, Who has inherited my eight-year home. I think of sleeping under a new roof, No tablets to take, just new hope. It is like finding a better home somewhere: Disowning the new owner and the neighbours, Who will probably not notice me moving out, Like a traveler who may not say goodbye. _10 October,2015.