Adrian Buckner

Allestree, Derby

 

Adrian Buckner teaches Creative Writing at Derby University and has three collections from Five Leaves Press, the latest being Downshifting (2017)

 

Written Good Friday, 13^th April 2020

 

Elderly couple, walking in Allestree Park

 

The world is as it was to them

four decades ago

in the sealed content of coupledom

 

from which nothing is demanded

save benign scattered gestures

to distant passers in a green flowering land