Downtown, my town My liverwort and moss garden Wasp gall Bournemouth Pier Not so much a sea of steps Making supper The well-lit pissoir "It's the only world we have." Pre-Christmas scowlery Downy girl Flat cat Left its mark The days turning My great-grandmother's Christmas cactus Christmas Eve on my street Ecumenism Flicker Looking out after midnight Bit of snow Didn't focus My neighbour's chimney 24 June 1997 1937. 1997. Crow Pixie cups Flicker after a lot of rain Flicker Outside my window Some crow Visiting neighbour Minnie, listening to the radio news That hydrangea Potted hydrangea after a little frost Devil's paintbrush in the churchyard Neighbourhood butchers Hydrangea in a pot Around twenty years old Negotiation Plastic bag trying to dry after being washed Twenty-year-old beer By the graveyard Pale toadflax; purple honeysuckle Atop Butter Cove Mountain Almost full, almost foggy Sluggish bee