the nest

The Nest

Chintz Twins
Acquisitive Magpies
Furniture makes our lives
Rooms accumulate memories
Palaces are cold marble
But this cottage may be a Palace of the Mind.
Poems become damp reminders
Of the passing years.
The wooden pieces shuffle across the board.
One day the Pawns will mount the stairs
And stage a coup,
“This is our house,” they will say
“You took us for granted
Chintz Twins!”

Christopher Baily
February 1992, Hemingford Abbots
(photo of Chris with his twin uncles Edward & Andrew Baily)

©the Estate of Christopher Baily