Sunday, April 12, 2026

In The Third Sleep

by Jonathan Bennett
after Kay Sage



A red kite makes
off with a sausage roll 
last month in Oxfordshire

And I for one am
having none of it unless
all hell breaks free and it soars

From muffins to
mountain tops and back
again we are delighted to meet

Our maker in flight
our paths we trust and follow
our pride no grief so it lands fairly

Or squarely behind
a baby on board caution
stickers to tribal conventions

What if the tailgater
dipped backed in for ketchup
divebombed for crisp snow apples

Made a whole shebang
out of it blasted smithereens
God least then we’d know for sure





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