Times Lacuna

Diamond geezer
a million facets at once present
each facet hitchhiked, pathways
glitter in a dark forest
retread each one again again
each time slightly different
each slice held up captured
revisit and relive the occasions of youth
Badstep
                      picnics
life-boats
          Bude Street
Burrows
hunt for my black dog
falling in the dunes in sand
                      sea-water
Church and churchyard
                      bury the dead
                      praise on a sunday morning
                      her nipples proud in her long cheese-cloth shirt
                      soldiers sacrifice
                      grandfather singing tunelessly/
          Dark Lane
          Gibbs Lane
                      granp, Kim, Silver, and Barry
          Green Lane
          Marine parade
                      fairy lights
seamans mission
port quarter
Market Street
Skurn
foul smell
Teignmouth Road
Vernons Lane
grandmother sitting in a chair
uncomprehending after her stroke
increment replay change
stasis bubble remember chamber
circular linked list, no end or start marked
live forever in a welcome past