Sunday, August 9, 2015

Richard Atkinson

sleeping digger man


passing by a
building site

walls half built
rubble strewn
empty of people.

midday sun yawning
air crisp

full of salt
and yesterday’s vinegar.

noticed
in this abandoned  landscape
enormous man with beard.

eyes tightly shut
asleep

a picture of serenity in a
tiny mechanical digger

whose cabin was
too small  for him

as though
everyone had left

having been unable
to prise him out

and decided to
leave him
be
sleeping.

passing him again
later
he was still as asleep

as anyone ever can be.
but there was a headless
shoulderless
human half figure

peering into a concrete tunnel
that lay upturned on the ground
next to digger man.

maybe he had lost something?
maybe  he  was  looking  for  answers

or  a  way  out
or  even  a  way  out  for  digger  man?

the headless man
and the trapped
sleeping
giant.

something  that  should
make  anyone 
smile
for  free.


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