The duPs - The Mindless Scarecrow

The Mindless Scarecrow

Molecules of hydrogen

Bonded around a speck

Of oxygenated dust

Sprinkled

From heaven

As kaleidoscopic grain

Carpeting the Downs

Rolled up to become

A mindless scarecrow

With a frozen brain.

Guardian of the kerbside

Expecting scorn

But unexpectedly

Admired

By the close

Waiting in vain

For a Good Samaritan

But stuck there

For ever in weather

That’s been insane.

Sub-zero survival

Until I thaw with the sun

Forgotten

Meltdown to nothing

Along the gutter

And down the drain

To where we come from

Dust to dust, drop by drop;

Only my trainers

Are left to explain.

January 2010

With help from the Taylor poets, who made and photographed the snowman