REMINDED

dont remember much about
my
trips
to
holland

canals
untipped waitresses
the room opposite the clock tower

but
the
houses
over by the park
look
dutch to me
in
the
tall slant
of
their roofs

like the allotments cowering under the tall cranes
with
their
rotting
ground fruit
and 
askew water butts
rusting and brown
remind
me
of 
a 
war
i wasnt in