I tell my wife the pig named Alfristan is dead.
I’d been playing football in my dream with a Space Hopper.
“I hope you were able to beat it,” she said,
Her faith in me is not great. Vegan curry for dinner.
A Great Tit grasps the lattice of my open window,
Takes a cautious look, then flies a turn inside;
Perches on the lampshade, knows the artificial glow,
Drops a chalky deposit and flutters back outside.
In these self-isolating times, we sleep in separate beds,
Four weeks plus, and all that lingers is a dry cough.
The habit of distance has taken lodging in our heads,
We live at home, apart; shared evening meals enough.
Alfristan woke every morning thinking of sin.
I wake from Hieronymus dreams to distancing.
Then uninvited and absurd, nature wanders in,
Sits, shits and leaves me bleakly wondering.
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Published only for flash fiction, not for poetry since the school magazine.