Forgotten Ground Regained
The Future
We found it like tourists findfossils:
A little skull, covered inconcrete.
We were laughing, half in love,or lust.
You in a blue bikini,bursting
with clinical calm, aimed thecamera.
Like they say, we may look backand laugh.
Copyright © Alex Rettie, 2024.
First published in Forgotten Ground Regained: A Journal of Alliterative Verse, New Series, Issue 4, Fall, 2024