The Little Red Post Box

by

Hay Machine

(for Margaret O'Shea from Ventry)

Aintree dressed
in straight top hat
and crimson vest
stood classically
on spit and polish spat
with marching orders
set by royal decree
cut out for splendid cast iron soldiery

In Saorstat green
the fusiliers
look less than ceremonious
their decorated chests
and trim
like plastic-leaf'd begonias

Georgian Edwardian
Victoria's invention
in side-door green
cut Chaplin-jibbed
like Cosgrave's own reflection

Post Box imagery abounds
money-boxes miniatures
Christmas cards with signitures
snow-capped and robin-topped
to church bell chimes
from horsedrawn times
from char-a-bancs and jaunting cars
to labels stuck on chutney jars

With two mouths open
fattened and joined at the hip
like siamese
one for local post
its other side for overseas

Thomas Bodkin where are you
your skill and taste now needed
to table the artistic motion
repaint them red
let's say
if nothing else as a devotion
to your red rose friend
now that from the money's watermark
our daily link to her achievement
and that important time
is set to end

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Why don't you look at Take a Bow
by: Joy Chowdhury
from: Vancouver, British Columbia, CA

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