Volume 5 | Issue 2 | June-July
2011 |
The Beige Decade
Nigel Burwood
At the moment I was half thinking
about my dad (1913 - 1995)
a man ran across the corner
of the window,
through a diagonal shower of coldish rain,
wearing a coat of exactly the kind
dad had worn for years.
A precious memory,
that rare shade of beige in gaberdene,
a colour and style from another age,
the beige decade.
Nigel Burwood - Nigel Burwood, British, lives in Santa Cruz, California and also in London and Norfolk part of the year. When he isn't writing poems and publishing them in literary journals, he sells books on the Internet, attends auctions and plays golf. A collection of his poetry is currently published in World's Strand, an international anthology (academici/UK 2006) for which he suggested the title, helping to mold the vision. An English major with a degree from Southampton, favorite poets and writers include Baudelaire, Eliot, Borges, Nabokov and Meades.
