Morning commute (included in Off Page 2025 exhibition)

Nodding in the half light, shuddering 
doors open and off and out and onto
the pavement, jostles like swimming upstream.
Sunrise shakers in earshot disagree
in whispers with no-one, about somewhere to be:
white rabbit watches long since pawned,
crouched with lidless cup.

The coffee queues and cable scarves
accommodate the sedate while faceless
in the litter; little fuss and scratchy bliss.
Hot pastries crackle and shed with tong pressure,
slipping lonely into their paper bed.
In the pause, all glance longwise;
taking the pouch and longing likewise.

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