Alchemisland

Millennials scrolling mousewheels to squeaking exhaustion

Trawling through old photographs

No loose hard copies in shoeboxes beneath tossed beds

Or kept locked up like anchorites in red Afternoon Tea biscuit tins

Name, date and place written on the back in red

From moment of penning until dumping upon death unread

Jpegs of epochs where I sought attention more

Was vengeful, tense and pent up

Box of the screen, casement to Mnemosyne

Within are my memories, how preen prim roundfaced.